[Rarebooks] Offering: A leaf from Caxton's Polycronicon, 1482

[Michael John Thompson]

[CAXTON, William]. An Original Leaf from the Polycronicon by William 
Caxton at Westminster in the year 1482. San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1938.

Original leaf from the Polycronicon hinged at front. (Leaf lightly 
browned and spotted). Original cloth-backed boards, the covers with 
Caxton monogram printed in black, original printed paper spine label. 
Mild tanning to edges of boards and trifling stains.

LIMITED EDITION, one of 297 copies printed for The Book Club of 
California by Edwin and Robert Grabhorn. The text includes a life of 
Caxton by Benjamin P. Kurtz, a note on the Polycronicon by Oscar 
Lewis and an appreciation of William Caxton by Edwin Grabhorn.

One of the most desirable of all publications from The Book Club of California.


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$1,250.00 (trade discount allowed)

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Last copy of the 1482 Polycronicon at auction $99,000 (incomplete 
copy) Sothebys 2007

Last copy of this leaf book at auction  PBA 2008 $1000 (previous 
auction records up to $1500)

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