£480
English Incunabula. Voragine (Jacobus de) & Caxton (William, translator), The Golden Legend (Legenda aurea), Westminster: ?Wynkyn de Worde, late 15th c [?1498], a single incunabulum leaf, folio CCLXX* only, double-column, the verso of which is illustrated with a woodcut of Saint Luke the Evangelist, his symbolic winged ox by his side, 27 x 19cm
A single leaf from a very rare early edition of The Golden Legend, one of the most popular and influential books of the Middle Ages. Any English edition is highly important source for containing Caxton's pre-Tyndale translations of the Bible.
Unexamined out of frame. Condition as evidenced by images.
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