Apr 21, 2009 - Sale 2176

Sale 2176 - Lot 95

Price Realized: $ 210
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
HORMAN, WILLIAM. Vulgaria . . . First Printed by Richard Pynson in 1519. Now Reprinted, with an Introduction by Montague Rhodes James. 4to, original 1/2 morocco. Compliments slip of the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres tipped in. Oxford: Roxburghe, 1926

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Humanist school book consisting of English sentences with model Latin translations. "The book is an encyclopaedic collection . . . covering religion, manners, learning, domestic life, and recreations, and provides an admirable survey of the culture of early Tudor England" (ODNB).