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Auction archive: Lot number 364

PYNSON, Richard (d 1530; printer) The Boke of Conforte agayn...

Estimate
£20,000 - £30,000
ca. US$28,452 - US$42,679
Price realised:
£50,000
ca. US$71,132
Auction archive: Lot number 364

PYNSON, Richard (d 1530; printer) The Boke of Conforte agayn...

Estimate
£20,000 - £30,000
ca. US$28,452 - US$42,679
Price realised:
£50,000
ca. US$71,132
Beschreibung:

PYNSON, Richard (d. 1530; printer). The Boke of Conforte agaynste all Tribulacions. London: Richard Pynson, [1505?].
PYNSON, Richard (d. 1530; printer). The Boke of Conforte agaynste all Tribulacions. London: Richard Pynson, [1505?]. 4º (183 x 129mm). Woodcut of the crucifixion on recto and verso of title, repeated on recto of the final leaf [Hodnett 1482]. 5 other cuts which comprise Jesus before Pilate A4r [Hodnett 1462], the crucifixion B6r [Hodnett 1475], a scholar in his library C6v [Hodnett 1509], and on E5v two cuts surrounded by five borders, David with a harp [Hodnett 1323] and Goliath in armour with David raising a sling [Hodnett 1433]. Pynson's device on verso of final leaf [McKerrow 9b]. (Title lighty soiled at margins, B8 with repaired tear into bottom of text causing slight loss to final line, corner repairs to C1, F3 and G2.) Late 19th-century black hard-grained morocco by Francis Bedford covers tooled in blind with wide border of fillets and multiple rolls enclosing a cross-hatched field semé with fleurs-de-lys, spine with raised bands lettered in gilt and tooled in blind, gilt edges (a little rubbing to spine bands and corners). Provenance : Sir Henry Hope Edwardes, 10th Baronet (1829-1900; bookplate; his inserted note stating 'No mention is made of this book in either Ames or Lowndes and no copy exists in the Museum,' signed with initials). SECOND ENGLISH EDITION, PRINTED BY PYNSON of this translation of Livret des consolacions (Paris, 1497-98) [Goff L 256]. The first edition was published by Wynkyn de Worde in [1505?]. The dialogue between Christ and a sinner which is included also appeared in another translation [STC 14548]. EXTREMELY RARE . ONLY ONE COPY OF PYNSON'S EDITION IS KNOWN , located at Durham University. For a work by Pynson, it is also somewhat unusual in containing more than one woodcut. As Plomer notes, 'most of his books, even the scholastic works, contain one cut' and only a small number were illustrated on a larger scale, the best known being Canterbury Tales , the Chronicles of Froissart , and the Kalendar of Shepherds . This work of 112 pages contains six cuts, one repeated three times. It appears to mark Pynson's sole use of three blocks, Jesus before Pilate and the double presentation of David. The block of the scholar in his library had previously been used by Wynkyn de Worde (see lot 389). Plomer, Wynkyn de Worde and His Contemporaries, p. 150; STC 3296.

Auction archive: Lot number 364
Beschreibung:

PYNSON, Richard (d. 1530; printer). The Boke of Conforte agaynste all Tribulacions. London: Richard Pynson, [1505?].
PYNSON, Richard (d. 1530; printer). The Boke of Conforte agaynste all Tribulacions. London: Richard Pynson, [1505?]. 4º (183 x 129mm). Woodcut of the crucifixion on recto and verso of title, repeated on recto of the final leaf [Hodnett 1482]. 5 other cuts which comprise Jesus before Pilate A4r [Hodnett 1462], the crucifixion B6r [Hodnett 1475], a scholar in his library C6v [Hodnett 1509], and on E5v two cuts surrounded by five borders, David with a harp [Hodnett 1323] and Goliath in armour with David raising a sling [Hodnett 1433]. Pynson's device on verso of final leaf [McKerrow 9b]. (Title lighty soiled at margins, B8 with repaired tear into bottom of text causing slight loss to final line, corner repairs to C1, F3 and G2.) Late 19th-century black hard-grained morocco by Francis Bedford covers tooled in blind with wide border of fillets and multiple rolls enclosing a cross-hatched field semé with fleurs-de-lys, spine with raised bands lettered in gilt and tooled in blind, gilt edges (a little rubbing to spine bands and corners). Provenance : Sir Henry Hope Edwardes, 10th Baronet (1829-1900; bookplate; his inserted note stating 'No mention is made of this book in either Ames or Lowndes and no copy exists in the Museum,' signed with initials). SECOND ENGLISH EDITION, PRINTED BY PYNSON of this translation of Livret des consolacions (Paris, 1497-98) [Goff L 256]. The first edition was published by Wynkyn de Worde in [1505?]. The dialogue between Christ and a sinner which is included also appeared in another translation [STC 14548]. EXTREMELY RARE . ONLY ONE COPY OF PYNSON'S EDITION IS KNOWN , located at Durham University. For a work by Pynson, it is also somewhat unusual in containing more than one woodcut. As Plomer notes, 'most of his books, even the scholastic works, contain one cut' and only a small number were illustrated on a larger scale, the best known being Canterbury Tales , the Chronicles of Froissart , and the Kalendar of Shepherds . This work of 112 pages contains six cuts, one repeated three times. It appears to mark Pynson's sole use of three blocks, Jesus before Pilate and the double presentation of David. The block of the scholar in his library had previously been used by Wynkyn de Worde (see lot 389). Plomer, Wynkyn de Worde and His Contemporaries, p. 150; STC 3296.

Auction archive: Lot number 364
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