Boece [Boethius], Hector.

folio, 2 parts in one volume, titles with architectural borders with Badé device at centre, historiated initials, a few near-contemporary annoations in ink, contemporary english binding of blind-stamped panelled calf over wooden boards by john reynes (with his motif of a dog beneath his monogam appearing in the borders), upper and lower covers with  thick outer borders decorated with recurring tools of  dog, bee, bird, thistle, etc, central rectangle in three compartments with foliage rolls of fleur-de-lis, etc, rebacked, upper joint repaired, lacking A1 (title) and final leaf z8 (both supplied in photostat facsimile), decorated endpapers, some heavy worming to first half of text and to the binding, occasional marginal damp-staining

Sir John Cope, book-plate

The British general Sir John Cope (1690-1760) was in command of the government forces at the Battle of Prestonpans in 1745, where he was defeated by the Jacobite Charles Edward Stuart ("Bonnie Prince Charlie"). Despite being exonerated at the subsequent inquiry, Cope's supposed incompetence at the battle passed into legend. Thus, according to the Oxford DNB, "nearly four decades of distinguished service were eclipsed by one incident that condemned him to lasting (and undeserved) ridicule".

Adams B-2308, Renouard, Badius, II,p.195

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Published in Paris at the author's expense, the highly popular and influential Scotorum historia --the second history of Scotland to appear in print, after that of John Major (1521) -- is written in the form of a dramatic narrative, and tells the story of the Scottish people from their very earliest origins and the foundation of the Scottish realm in Scotland in 330 BC until the death of James I and the capture and punishment of his murderers in 1438. "With some help from Tacitus, Boece presents the Scots as a people of antique virtue and unyielding independence, notably through an unbroken line of kings" (Oxford DNB).

The bookseller and bookbinder John Reynes [formerly Jan Rijens] (d. 1545), was a native of Wageningen, Gueldres, in the Low Countries. Granted letters of denization on 7 June 1510 his name first appears in the colophon of an edition of Higden's Polychronycon (1527), and he continued to publish books at intervals up to 1544. As a bookbinder, he oversaw one of the most prolific binderies of the period. In 1944 Hobson was able to identify 130 surviving books bound by Reynes, and 400 of his bindings (see Oxford DNB).The roll-tooled border present on this binding is illustrated as one such example of Reynes's work in roll no.432, J. Basil Oldham, English Blind-stamped Bindings (Cambridge, 1952). A very similar foliage roll is roll no. 435 in the same work.