The Early Oxford Press / A Bibliography of Printing and Publishing at Oxford, '1468'-1640; With Notes, Appendixes and Illustrations

by Falconer Madan

1518.

P. [7]. Whittington, l. 3.

For protouatis read prothouatis. Eleven copies are now known.

Pp. [8]–9. Pliny and Lystrius.

Something can be added to the account. The two original books in dispute are in the John Rylands (Spencer) Library at Manchester, and the locus classicus for their history is naturally in Dibdin’s Bibliotheca Spenceriana (1814), ii. 271, iii. 411: where will be found a reproduction (in type) of the two titles and colophons. Of the Pliny Dibdin states that one George Smith passed it on to Van Damme, from whom Askew bought it for fifteen guineas. With respect to the Lystrius, it appears that the “Mr. Dent” who purchased it at the Askew sale was an agent or pseudonym of Mr. Alchorne. The volume bears a manuscript note pretending to be from “i. Korsellis” at Haarlem in 1471, stating that the book came to him from his brother Frederick.