HIGDEN, Ranulphus (d. 1364). Polycronicon . Translated from Latin into English, with additions, by John de Trevisa (1326-1412), edited by William Caxton (d. 1491). Southwark: Peter Treveris for John Reynes, 16 May 1527. 2° (282 x 185mm). Hand-coloured title printed in red and black with woodcut medallion portrait of Henry VII, a large illustration of St. George and the Dragon, and Reynes's device [McKerrow 55]; Reynes's full-page woodcut on last page printed in black, an earlier state [McKerrow 61] of the title-illustrations [Hodnett 2489, state 2] before the block was cut up; woodcut border of hunting scenes around colophon [McKerrow & Ferguson 12]; woodcut battle-scene between English and French armies on z6v [Hodnett 2491]; woodcut musical notation illustrating diapason on n5r (same block as used in Wynkyn de Worde's 1495 second edition [STC 13439]); woodcut portraits of kings, queens and Saracens printed from 6 blocks [Hodnett 2490, 2492-6], with repetitions; numerous 10-line and smaller woodcut initials; black letter, double-column. (Last leaf [colophon, device] cut down and window mounted, abrasions on title, hinges reinforced in last quire, repaired tears in X2 with minimal loss, occasional light soiling.) 19th-century morocco, gilt rule to sides, spine gilt-lettered, edges gilt (rubbed). Provenance: marginalia on a few leaves in a 16th-century hand -- Viscount Mersey, Bignor Park (book label to front pastedown). THIRD EDITION, THE FIRST ILLUSTRATED, of Higden's universal history, including additions by Trevisa, Caxton and others. Caxton had included an extract, The Description of Britain (Duff 113), in his 1480 edition of Chronicles of England (Duff 97), before printing the complete text in 1482 (Duff 172). The second edition was published by Wynkyn de Worde in 1495 (Duff 173). The woodcut illustrations appear for the first time in this third edition by Peter Treveris, except for the diapason block. When it first appeared in de Worde's 1495 edition it was the earliest printed musical notation in an English book. Trevisa's translations of Bartholomaeus Anglicus and Higden 'may reasonably be considered the corner-stones of English prose,' and his addition of The Description of England is the 'first delineation of England and her story in native English' (CHEL). Grolier Langland to Wither 144; Pforzheimer 490; STC 13440.
HIGDEN, Ranulphus (d. 1364). Polycronicon . Translated from Latin into English, with additions, by John de Trevisa (1326-1412), edited by William Caxton (d. 1491). Southwark: Peter Treveris for John Reynes, 16 May 1527. 2° (282 x 185mm). Hand-coloured title printed in red and black with woodcut medallion portrait of Henry VII, a large illustration of St. George and the Dragon, and Reynes's device [McKerrow 55]; Reynes's full-page woodcut on last page printed in black, an earlier state [McKerrow 61] of the title-illustrations [Hodnett 2489, state 2] before the block was cut up; woodcut border of hunting scenes around colophon [McKerrow & Ferguson 12]; woodcut battle-scene between English and French armies on z6v [Hodnett 2491]; woodcut musical notation illustrating diapason on n5r (same block as used in Wynkyn de Worde's 1495 second edition [STC 13439]); woodcut portraits of kings, queens and Saracens printed from 6 blocks [Hodnett 2490, 2492-6], with repetitions; numerous 10-line and smaller woodcut initials; black letter, double-column. (Last leaf [colophon, device] cut down and window mounted, abrasions on title, hinges reinforced in last quire, repaired tears in X2 with minimal loss, occasional light soiling.) 19th-century morocco, gilt rule to sides, spine gilt-lettered, edges gilt (rubbed). Provenance: marginalia on a few leaves in a 16th-century hand -- Viscount Mersey, Bignor Park (book label to front pastedown). THIRD EDITION, THE FIRST ILLUSTRATED, of Higden's universal history, including additions by Trevisa, Caxton and others. Caxton had included an extract, The Description of Britain (Duff 113), in his 1480 edition of Chronicles of England (Duff 97), before printing the complete text in 1482 (Duff 172). The second edition was published by Wynkyn de Worde in 1495 (Duff 173). The woodcut illustrations appear for the first time in this third edition by Peter Treveris, except for the diapason block. When it first appeared in de Worde's 1495 edition it was the earliest printed musical notation in an English book. Trevisa's translations of Bartholomaeus Anglicus and Higden 'may reasonably be considered the corner-stones of English prose,' and his addition of The Description of England is the 'first delineation of England and her story in native English' (CHEL). Grolier Langland to Wither 144; Pforzheimer 490; STC 13440.
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