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Spare your good (London, T. Marshe, ?ab. 1555) / reprinted from the only known copy with an introduction by E. Gordon Duff: PB 168-2004

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Spare your good (London, T. Marshe, ?ab. 1555) / reprinted from the only known copy with an introduction by E. Gordon Duff

Maker(s)

Author: Marshe, Thomas
Contributor: Duff, Edward Gordon
Designer: Rogers, Bruce
Publisher: Jenkinson, Francis
Publisher: Bartholomew, A. T.
Printer: Cambridge University Press

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Description

"The type used ... is the Centaur type, designed by Mr Bruce Rogers ... ": p.[12].
"Two hundred and fifty copies printed for Francis Jenkinson and A. T. Bartholomew by J. B. Peace, M.A. at the University Press, Cambridge." -- Colophon.
In verse.
Reprinted from the original poetical tract now in the possession of Captain Arthur W. Clifford, of Chestal.
"'Spare your good' was first printed by Wynkyn de Worde." -- Introduction
Cambridge : Printed at the University Press, and sold by Bernard Quaritch, London, W., 1919.

21, [2] p. : incl. facsims ; 23 cm.

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2004) by Dreyfus, John

Dating

Production date: AD 1919

Note

Set up and printed by hand at the Saint Nicolas Press ... on Basingwerk parchment paper supplied by Grosvenor Chater Ltd. with inks supplied by Coates Brothers (Inks) Ltd. The blocks were made by Edward O. Beck Ltd. ... This edition is limited to 150 copies of which this is number [in ms] out of series."--Colophon. Bound in illustrated paper over boards.

Components of the work

Support composed of paper

Materials used in production

Printing ink

Techniques used in production

Printing

Identification numbers

Accession number: PB 168-2004
Primary reference Number: 199950
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Audit data

Created: Wednesday 26 November 2014 Updated: Monday 30 September 2019 Last processed: Tuesday 13 June 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Manuscripts and Printed Books

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