Three John Rylands Library Facsimiles
Lot comprises: RUSSELL, John. Propositio Johannis Russell. Printed by William Caxton. [1476] Facsimile of a copy in the John RYLANDS Library, Manchester with introduction by Henry Guppy. MANCHESTER: at the University Press MCMIX [1909]. Half title very toned.
NEWBERY, Thomas. A Booke in Englysh metre, of the great Marchaunt man called 'Dives Pragmaticus'. Facsimile of a copy in the John RYLANDS Library, Manchester with introduction by Percy E. Newbery; and remarks on the vocabulary and dialect, with a glossary by Henry C. Wyld. MANCHESTER: at the University Press MCMX [1910] Fly leaf very toned.
KNUTSSON, Benget Bishop of Arusiens. Here begynneth a litil boke the whiche traytied and reherced many gode thinges necessaries for the intirmite & grete sekenesse called pestilence the whiche often times enfecteth us. [London] [1485?] Facsimile from the copy in the John Rylands Library. With an Introduction by Guthrie Vine. MANCHESTER: at the University Press MCMX [1910] The first book on medicine to be printed in English. Sudhoff has shown (Arch. Guesch. Med 5. 56-58) that this was written about a century earlier by Papal physician Johannes Jacobi (d 1384) of Montpellier, a friend and colleague of Guy de Chauliac.
All 3 uniformly bound in white paper spine with light blue/grey paper boards and uncut pages. Spines and boards a little aged. Contents of all books are clean and straight. 235x180mm (average)


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