Io. Gower de confessione amantis.
1554
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Details
Title
Io. Gower de confessione amantis.
Uniform title
Confessio amantis
Created/published
Imprinted at London : In Fletestrete by Thomas Berthelette, the. XII. daie of Marche. An. M.D.LIIII. [1554]
Description
[6], CXCI, [1] leaves ; (fol.)
Associated name
Gower, John, 1325?-1408. author.
Harmsworth, R. Leicester (Robert Leicester), Sir, 1870-1937, former owner.
Harmsworth, R. Leicester (Robert Leicester), Sir, 1870-1937, former owner.
Note
In English verse.
At foot of title: Cum priuilegio.
The last leaf is blank.
Signatures: *⁶ A-2I⁶.
At foot of title: Cum priuilegio.
The last leaf is blank.
Signatures: *⁶ A-2I⁶.
ESTC staff note
Blank from F.S. Ferguson notes.
Signatures from DFo.
Signatures from DFo.
Cited/described in
Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.) (STC), 12144
Carl H. Pforzheimer Library, 422
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S120946
Carl H. Pforzheimer Library, 422
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S120946
Genre/form
Privileges (permissions)
Made-up copies.
Made-up copies.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Item Details
Call number
STC 12144 copy 1
Folger-specific note
cs10. Lacking final blank leaf. Morocco c19 binding, with gilt centerpiece on front and back covers, signed by F. Bedford. Provenance: bookseller's pencilled note on back paste-down: "C.P. 25/3/98 HS"; bought by Folger from Sotheby, 25 March 1898:1269
Call number
STC 12144 copy 2
Folger-specific note
HH98/29. Lacking final blank leaf. Made-up copy: leaf *1 (t.p.), possibly from another copy and leaf *3 wormed, probably from another copy. Small hole in B1, affecting text. Brown morocco, fully blind tooled with figures of wyverns, stags, lions, griffins, boars, etc., in the style of an early Durham binding, binding signed by Leighton. Provenance: inscriptions on 2G6v: "Edwarde Vaughan"; on 2H1r: "Jane Lyfield"; and on L2r: "Charles G. Leland"; bookplate of Michael Tomkinson; Sotheby sale, 5 April 1922:438; collated by Talbot at Quaritch, 7 April 1922; Harmsworth copy