Shelfmark
P.Rox.1905c
Author
Title
The castell of labour / translated from the French of Pierre Gringore by Alexander Barclay; reprinted in facsimile from Wynkyn de Worde's edition of 1506, with the French text of 31 March 1501 and an introduction by Alfred W. Pollard.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Edinburgh : Privately printed for presentation to the members of the Roxburghe Club, 1905.
Physical description
lxiv, [102], 111 p. : ill., facsims. ; 28 cm.
Series statement
(Roxburghe Club)
Note
Sixty copies printed.
Note
A reproduction from the unique copy preserved at the University Library, Cambridge, superintended by E. Gordon Duff, who first suggested the edition and collected material which served as a starting point of the present study.
Note
Dedicated and presented to the Roxburghe club by the Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry.
Note
An "extended paraphrase" of "Le chemin de povreté et de richesse," a poem written in 1342 by Jehan Bruyant. cf. Introd.
Note
Barker, no. 143
Note
Quarter dark brown leather binding with boards covered in paper.
Provenance
Rosebery's copy.
Provenance
Bookplate of Rosebery on front pastedown with Eton College Library armorial bookplate.
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Pollard, Alfred W., 1859 - 1944 (Alfred William), ed.
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Barclay, Alexander, 1475? - 1552 translator.
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Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose, 1847 - 1929 former owner.
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Scotland Edinburgh.
Language code
eng fre
Identifier
B44606