The prints are rude in execution, the foliage of trees being generally
indicated simply by horizontal lines (as in a French ©Ortus Sanitatis©
of about 1485). The shoes, sword-scabbards, and the like are often
entirely black, showing that the cuts were intended to be coloured by
hand. They appear to be entirely unknown elsewhere. See plate V.
_Copies known._
1. Bodleian. Imperfect. Wanting all ( ), c 3, c 4, g 4, k 4, k 5, o 4,
o 5, r 5, s 3, s 4, s 5, s 6, z 1, z 3, z 4. Marked Auct. R. supra
5. The variations of signn. h and i show that this is a later
issue than no. 2. Owned by William Little.
2. Bodleian. Imperfect. Wanting all ( ), a-f, g 1, g 2, h 1, i 6, k
1–3, k 6–8, l 3, l 6, l 8, o 3, p 6, r 4–6, t 1, t 6, x 1, x 2, x
7, x 8, y, z: but y 2, y 5 are inserted from Hearne’s fragments.
This was William Herbert’s copy: no. 730 in the Utterson sale
1852, where it was bought by the Bodleian for £6 10_s._: marked
Auct. R. supra 7.
3. John Rylands Library, Manchester. Wanting a 1, a 2 (supplied in
manuscript), z 4. Owned by Ratcliffe (sale, no. 1430, £3 2_s._),
then Alchorne, then Johnes. No. 15409 (E. 237) in the Spencer
Library. Dibdin’s collation is very faulty. Signn. h, i are of the
later kind.
4. Lambeth Library. Wants z 4 (blank). The variations in signn. h, i
are of the later type. Once archbp. Tenison’s copy. Marked once
lxiii. 1. 19, now 38. 2. 23. f.