Cicero, Marcus Tullius (author)
Buonaccorso, da Montemagno, approximately 1391-1429, De vera nobilitate. English.
Caxton, William, approximately 1422-1491 or 1492 (printer)
Worcester, John Tiptoft, Earl of, 1427-1470 (translator)
Worcester, William, 1415-1482? (attributed name)
Scrope, Stephen, 1472
Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Laelius de amicitia. English.
Shupton, Thomas (autograph)
Middleton, Bernard C., 1924- (binder)
Price, Roberto Salinas, 1936- (bookplate)
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Signatures: 1⁶, a⁶, b-h⁸, i⁴, a-f⁸.
Title from incipit.
Imprint information from colophon to "De senectute" (leaf i3): Thus endeth the boke of Tulle of olde age translated out of latyn in to frenshe by laurence de primo facto at the commaundement of the noble prynce Lowys Duc of Burbon, and enprynted by me symple persone William Caxton in to Englysshe at the playsir solace and reuerence of men growyng in to olde age the xii day of August the yere of our lord M.CCCC.lxxxi.
Colophon to "De vera nobilitate" (leaf f8v, 5th group): Explicit per Caxton.
The first edition in English of any of the Latin or Greek classics, with the first edition in English of any humanist text.
English translations variously attributed to Sir John Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester, Stephen Scrope, and William Worcester.
Typeset in ornate batarde, Caxton's type 2* (an amended version of his type 2). Quotations and proper names are in Caxton's type 3. "When Caxton left Bruges he had already made the punches and matrices of type 2, and he left his first type in Bruges with his partner Colard Mansion. Type 2 is therefore the first type used in England, and it was used in the majority of books printed up to the end of 1478. It was then re-cast and some fresh letters made, and the new type was in use from the beginning of 1479 until about 1484. Type 3 is a larger square type, and was cut, as the abbreviations show, especially for printing books in Latin. It was used by Caxton for the service books issued by him about the years 1477-1480, and after this it is found used for headline, or, as in the present book, for quotations and proper names." Cf. E. Duff, "Caxton's Tully of Old Age and Friendship" (1912), p. 14.
Citation/References: STC (2nd ed.) 5293
Citation/References: Needham, P. Printer & the pardoner, Cx 45
Citation/References: Duff 103
Citation/References: GW 6992
Citation/References: Goff C-627
Purchase; Nicholas Marlowe; 2018; RB336617.
