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Scanned image of the book’s front cover Paul Needham.
The Printer & The Pardoner: An Unrecorded Indulgence printed by William Caxton for the Hospital of St. Mary Rounceval, Charing Cross.
Published Washington: Library of Congress, 1986.
ISBN 0844405086;
ISBN-13: 9780844405087.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Size: 221x286x16mm.
Page count: 103pp inc. 18 illustrations, plus 1 foldout sheet reproducing the strips of the indulgence itself, all monochrome.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: this copy has some minor rips on the edges of the dustjacket, but this has been sealed in protective clear cellophane and so is otherwise in good order.


This item £15.00
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(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

Weight without packaging: 762g.

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Details the recovery of a printed indulgence that had been used by Caxton as binding material for one of his composite volumes. Appendix B provides a checklist of Caxton’s extant composite volumes ("sammelbande").


See also | Caxton |

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