Gower, John

Folio (11 1/2 x 7 1/2 in.; 292 x 190 mm). Title within decorative woodcut border, historiated woodcut initial; some marginal spotting, washed, lacks final blank leaf. Nineteenth-century mottled calf, gilt-ruled border; rebacked with original spine laid down, corners mended.

Joseph Brereton (bookplate) — Earl of Dysart, Ham House (Sotheby's, 31 May 1938, lot 152). acquisition: Seven Gables, 1965

STC 12143; ESTC S106702; Grolier/Langland to Wither 96; Pforzheimer 421

some marginal spotting, washed, lacks final blank leaf. Nineteenth-century mottled calf, gilt-ruled border; rebacked with original spine laid down, corners mended.
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Second edition, textually an improvement on the earlier one as the printer has collated the Caxton edition with one manuscript.