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Medieval Institute Publications - Western Michigan University, 2009. 1st edition.. Paperback. Paperback, F. viii+151pp, b/w illustrations, index, a fine copy. TEAMS Middle English Texts Series. A critical edition, with copious footnotes, of Caxton's work, which was based upon a book by Jacobus de Cessolis. The book is an allegory of fixed social structures where each rank has its allotted role.

Medieval Institute Publications - Western Michigan University, 2009. 1st edition.. Paperback. Paperback, F. viii+151pp, b/w illustrations, index, a fine copy. TEAMS Middle English Texts Series. A critical edition, with copious footnotes, of Caxton's work, which he based upon a book by Jacobus de Cessolis. The book is an allegory of fixed social structures where each rank has its allotted role.

London, John Russell Smith, 1855.. FIRST EDITION OF THE FACSIMILE EDITION 1855 (date at foot of last page, May 1st 1855), Vincent Figgins's facsimile edition of the 1482 Westminster Caxton edition. Reproduced from a copy in the British Museum. With a Few Remarks on Caxton's Typographical Productions. The Type has been catefully imitated, and the cuts traced from the British Museum copy. The paper has also been made as near as possible to the original. Large 8vo, approximately 290 x 210 mm, 11½ x 8½ inches, 24 half page woodcuts in the text, title page in red and black (a note at the foot of the page states that there was no title page in the original), 167 unnumbered pages of the original Caxton edition, followed by 13 pages of Remarks and a list of Caxton's works, 1 page of Synopsis of Characters and Combinations used in "The Game of Chess", 1 page of A Tribute to the Memory of William Caxton plus 1 page advert for Almshouses. Bound in publisher's morocco, with strapwork effect in relief and with… Read More