The book of the pylgremage of the sowle : translated from the French and printed by William Caxton An. 1483 with illuminations taken from the MS. Copy in the British Museum.

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Cloth, gilt cover device on front board and blindstamped cover device on rear board, blindstamped borders, 4to, 27 cm. xix, [2], 91pp ; ills (including 3 in colour) From the "Advertisement to the Reader": "This translation of the "Pylgremage of the Sowle" was made from the French, with additions, in the year 1413. The translator, or at least the author of the " additions," (which consist of poetry in even-lined stanzas) was in all probability Lydgate.The Editor is indebted to friends for facsimiles of the drawings which have been copied from the originals, and lithographed by Mr. Vincent Brooks. Those in colour being from the illuminated MS. translation in the British Museum (Egerton 615), and those in block printing from the prose French edition of the "Pylgremage of the Sowle," printed by Verard, at Paris, in 1499." Bookplate of E G Stanley on front pastedown endpaper. Tears with small loss to the spine, otherwise Good. 2 pp advertisement of the publisher's books tipped in. Old Quaritch collation note pencilled at end. N° de ref. del artículo ABE-47801

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