Oct 13, 2022 - Sale 2617

Sale 2617 - Lot 197

Price Realized: $ 10,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
English Incunabula Leaves, Four Examples, 1482-1498.



Including the following single leaves:

1) Higden's Polychronicon, 1482;

2) Sanctus Albanus, [aka] Saint Albans Chronicle, [No place: no printer, no date, St. Alban's Schoolmaster Printer, circa 1485], STC 995, Duff 101;

3) Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Westminster: Caxton, 1483;

and 4) Voragine's The Golden Legende, [Westminster: Wynkyn de Worde], 1498 [ie. 1499?], STC 24876, Duff 411; sizes vary, each housed in a folder. (4)

From the Ken Rapoport Collection.