A review from Notes and Queries , Volume 5, 1906: The Assemble of Goddes by John Lydgate was originally printed at Westminster by Wynkyn de Worde about the Year 1500 and then re-printed (in facsimile) by Cambridge, University Press in 1906. The work here was compiled by M. Dujardin and is one of the most interesting and the rarest in Cambridge University Library. It formed a portion of the famous volume of black-letter tracts given, with the rest of the library of John Moore, Bishop of Ely, by King George I. in 1715. ...
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A review from Notes and Queries , Volume 5, 1906: The Assemble of Goddes by John Lydgate was originally printed at Westminster by Wynkyn de Worde about the Year 1500 and then re-printed (in facsimile) by Cambridge, University Press in 1906. The work here was compiled by M. Dujardin and is one of the most interesting and the rarest in Cambridge University Library. It formed a portion of the famous volume of black-letter tracts given, with the rest of the library of John Moore, Bishop of Ely, by King George I. in 1715. So far as records extend, it is unique. The types employed are Caxton's type 3 for the title, and Wynkyn de Worde's type 3, with final m and n , etc., from type 1, in the rest of the book. On the title-page, and again below the colophon, is given a rough woodcut illustration, taken, says Mr. Sayle, from Caxton's second edition of 'The Canterbury Tales, ' and showing Jupiter presiding over a crowded and uncomfortable banquet of the deities. On the recto of the last page is Caxton's printer's mark. In a dream the poet is taken by Morpheus to the assembly of the gods, where he sees, next to Dyana: "in a mantell fyne, the god Jupyter in his demenynge. full sad and wyse he semed sykerly. a crowne of tynne stood on his hede." Neither for its poetry nor for its display of classic lore is the 'Assembly' of great importance, and the chief interest of the book is bibliographical. Two hundred and fifty facsimile copies have been produced, certified, and the impressions of the plates have been rubbed off, and the negatives destroyed. Those facsimile reprints constitute a delightful experiment of the University Press, and are worthy of hearty approval and encouragement.
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Near Fine. No Jacket. 1906, Facsimile reprint of the 1500 original edition. Hardcover, 4to., vellum-backed boards with vellum title label. Near Fine copy: Boards worn at corners. Owner's signature on fly leaf; light soil and fading to endpapers. Contents clean and unmarked. Lovely book.
