£480
English Incunabula and Early English Ownership. Higden (Ralph) & Trevisa (John, translator), Polychronicon (Universal History), first English printed edition, Westminster: William Caxton, 2nd July, 1482, a single incunabulum leaf, folio CCLXXXI only, from Liber Sextus describing events in the time of Alured or Alfred of Wessex, possibly bishop of Sherborne, single-column of 40 lines, rubricated in red, recto fore-margin with contemporary English manuscript marginalia of mathematical calculations and arithmetic, 22.5 x 17.5cm, custom-made red cloth over board portfolio, pastedown with tipped in typed bibliographic note, [Hain 8659; Duff 172; Proctor 9645; De Ricci 49]
Provenance: Geo. H. Brook; 20th c Medieval style seal bookplate to pastedown.
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