Notes and Queries, Number 03, November 17, 1849 by Various
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Charles II. As the laws during this period
have never been collected into a regular edition, a series of them is of the greatest rarity. 194 ÆSOP, FABLES, TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH WILLIAM CAXTON, _curious wood engravings_ BLACK LETTER, VERY RARE, _imperfect, old russia_ EMPRYNTED BY RICHARD PYNSON (NO DATE) *** This edition is altogether unknown and undescribed. The present copy commences with signature C1, and extends to sig. S(v) in sixes, on the reverse of which is the colophon, with Pynson's device underneath. _It wants sheets A and B, and E_ (iiii). 380 Cellii (E.) Eques Auratus Anglo-Wirtembergieus; id est, actus admodum Solennis; quo Jacobus Rex Angliæ, &c. Regii Garteriorum supremus ac Frid. Ducem Wirtembergicum, per Rob. Spencer Barnoem declaravit, _portrait woodcut Tubing. 1605_ *** This was Sir Wm. Dethick's copy, Garter King at Arms, who accompanied Lord Spencer in his journey; in it he has written some very curious circumstances respecting the journey, and of the ill-treatment he experienced from Sir Rob. Spencer and Wm. Seager, "a poore paynter, sonne of a base fleminge and spawne of a Jew," with an account of the family of Dethick, or De |
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