Something can be added to the account. The two original books in
dispute are in the John Rylands (Spencer) Library at Manchester, and
the _locus classicus_ for their history is naturally in Dibdin’s
©Bibliotheca Spenceriana© (1814), ii. 271, iii. 411: where will be
found a reproduction (in type) of the two titles and colophons. Of the
Pliny Dibdin states that one George Smith passed it on to Van Damme,
from whom Askew bought it for fifteen guineas. With respect to the
Lystrius, it appears that the “Mr. Dent” who purchased it at the Askew
sale was an agent or pseudonym of Mr. Alchorne. The volume bears a
manuscript note pretending to be from “i. Korsellis” at Haarlem in
1471, stating that the book came to him from his brother Frederick.
About 1513.