Lot Details
Lot 99
HIGDEN, RANULF Polycronicon.
[Westminster]: William Caxton, 1482 [after 2 July]. Single extracted leaf from the "Liber Septimus" of the first edition. 8 1/2 x 6 inches (21.5 x 15.25 cm); inlaid to thin card to 13 x 10 1/2 inches. A few early marginalia, minor staining (preceding the extraction of the leaf for the leaf-book) In: A Genuine Caxton Leaf from Higden's "Policronicon" Westminster, 1482. Los Angeles: Dawson's Bookshop, [1934]. Spine lacking, boards defective. With the Jean Hersholt bookplate, signed.
C The Julius and Theodore Cohn Library
Estimate: $500 - $800
Sold for $819 (includes buyer's premium)
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