BRUNFELS, Otto (1488-1534)
A very true pronosticacio[n], with a kalender, gathered out of the moost auncyent bokes of ryght holy Astronomers… Translated out of latyn in to Englysshe by Iohn Ryckes preest. London: John Byddell, [1536].
Rare English edition of an almanac for 1536 by the German theologian and botanist Otto Brunfels, the Latin original of which is now lost. ESTC records just 4 copies of this edition worldwide; not in the BL or Folger. The printer John Byddell was sometime apprentice to Wynkyn de Worde and, after the latter’s death, moved into his former master’s premises at the sign of the Sun in Fleet Street. The woodcut title border, illustrating the seven cardinal virtues, was previously used by de Worde in two publications dated 1534. STC 421.17.
Octavo (138 x 90mm). With final blank. Woodcut title border [McKerrow and Ferguson 29], initials, printer’s device on colophon (title re-margined at fore-edge, small repairs to blank lower margin of quires A-B, a few minor stains). Modern morocco. Provenance: ‘E A’ (early manuscript initials on title) – George Kenyon of Peel, Esq. (d.1780; bookplate).
BRUNFELS, Otto (1488-1534)
A very true pronosticacio[n], with a kalender, gathered out of the moost auncyent bokes of ryght holy Astronomers… Translated out of latyn in to Englysshe by Iohn Ryckes preest. London: John Byddell, [1536].
Rare English edition of an almanac for 1536 by the German theologian and botanist Otto Brunfels, the Latin original of which is now lost. ESTC records just 4 copies of this edition worldwide; not in the BL or Folger. The printer John Byddell was sometime apprentice to Wynkyn de Worde and, after the latter’s death, moved into his former master’s premises at the sign of the Sun in Fleet Street. The woodcut title border, illustrating the seven cardinal virtues, was previously used by de Worde in two publications dated 1534. STC 421.17.
Octavo (138 x 90mm). With final blank. Woodcut title border [McKerrow and Ferguson 29], initials, printer’s device on colophon (title re-margined at fore-edge, small repairs to blank lower margin of quires A-B, a few minor stains). Modern morocco. Provenance: ‘E A’ (early manuscript initials on title) – George Kenyon of Peel, Esq. (d.1780; bookplate).
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