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Higden, Ranulphus (1280-1364) Sixteen Leaves from an Incunabula Polychronicon.
Westminster: Wynkyn de Worde, 13 April 1495.
Folio, second edition, the text translated by John Trevisa, with the continuation 1357-1460 by William Caxton; all leaves disbound, a1 present, with woodcut initial, all other leaves containing text only, almost all with tears and stains to varying degrees; three torn with loss; lot includes a blank leaf, likely the original ffep, with distinctive five-line inscription in an angular contemporary hand, likely a prayer, as it is headed, "Jesus"; all leaves detached from any binding, some bifolia present, 9 7/8 x 7 1/2 in.
