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William Langland | The Vision of Pierce Plowman, London, 1561

UK: Greenford Park Warehouse

Lot closes

December 11, 02:36 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 GBP

Starting Bid

7,000 GBP

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William Langland

The Vision of Pierce Plowman, newlye imprynted after the authors olde copy. London: Owen Rogers, February 1561


4to (184 x 139 mm), title-page with small woodcut ornament, criblé initials, quires Ff-Gg reversed, marginal notes and bibliographical notes to front endleaves in two nineteenth-century hands, seventeenth-century speckled calf rebacked, sides ruled in blind, fleurons in blind at corners, small dampstain at upper margin, small marginal wormhole to Dd, Gg browned, joints rubbed


Fourth edition of the Vision of Piers Plowman, attributed to William Langland, without The Crede (most copies of the Vision are found without it).


PROVENANCE:

"S. Sanders ex dono D. Shermedine 1681": inscription on front free endpaper; Waldo C. Bryant (1863-1930): bookplate; Christie's London, 13 Jul y 2022, lot 106


LITERATURE:

ESTC S114908; STC 19908; Pforzheimer, 799 ("The crede is... usual[ly] lacking"); Lowndes V 1888

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