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VORAGINE, JACOBUS DE. The Golden Legend. fragment of 39 (of 448) leaves, including 7 with woodcuts. Bâtarde type, double columns. Folio, approximately 290x207 mm, disbound; occasional soiling, scattered early marginalia, several leaves torn in margins with varying text loss, conspicuous restoration in corners and along fore edge of last several leaves. [Westminster: Wynkyn de Worde, 8 January 1498]
From the fourth edition of Caxton's translation, printed on paper produced by John Tate, the first English papermaker: leaves 2-7; 10-15; 18-19; 22; 24-37 (with woodcut excised from 28 and corner off 34); 46, 352-354; and 357-362. The woodcuts appear on leaves 5, 6, 15, 25, 32 (with hole through image), 34, and 361.
