Bibliomania; or Book-Madness: A Bibliographical RomanceDibdin, Thomas Frognall
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Bibliomania; or Book-Madness: A Bibliographical Romance
Dibdin, Thomas Frognall
Bibliography; Bibliomania; Book collecting; Books -- Prices
"A legend, an _Antiphonarye_, a grayle, a psalter," &c.,
were the books appointed to be kept in every parish church
"of the province of Canterbury" by Robert Winchelsen.
_Const. Provin. and of Otho and Octhobone_, fol. 67, rect.,
edit. 1534.]
[Footnote 179: "The year books, 9 v. parcels, as published,
impr. in different years by Pynson, Berthelet, Redman,
Myddylton, Powell, Smythe, Rastell, and Tottyl, 1517 to
1531." Some of them have the prices printed at the end; as
"The Prisce of thys Boke ys xiid. unbounde--The Price of
thys Boke is xvid. un bownde;" and upon counting the sheets,
it appears that the stated price of Law-Books, in the reign
of Hen. 8, was ten sheets for one groat. _Bibl.
Monast-Fletewodiana_, no. 3156.]
[Footnote 180: In a copy of this book, printed by Grafton in
1546, which was in the library of that celebrated
bibliomaniac, Tom Rawlinson, was the following singular MS.
note: "At Oxforde the yeare 1546, browt down to Seynbury by
John Darbye _pryce_ 14_d._ When I kepe Mr. Letymers shype I
bout thys boke when the testament was obberagatyd that shepe
herdys myght not red hit I pray god amende that blyndnes
wryt by Robert Wyllyams keppynge shepe uppon Seynbury hill.
1546." _Camdeni Annales: Edit. Hearne_, vol. i., p. xxx.]
[Footnote 181: From Mr. Nichol's curious work, I make the
following further extracts:
L _s._ _d._
A.D.
1539. Item, paid for the half part of the Bybell, }
accordingly after the King's injunction } 0 9 9
1544. Item, also paid for six books of the Litany }
in English } 0 1 6
1549. Paid for iv books of the service of the church 0 16 0
[This was probably Grafton's Prayer book of 1549, fol.]
1559. Paid for a Bybyl and Parafrawse 0 16 0
[From the Ch. Wardens Accts. of St. Margaret's Westminster]
The Inventory of John Port, 1524.
In the shop.
Item, a premmer lymmed with gold, and with imagery }
written honds } 0 8 4
(From the do. of St. Mary Hill, London.)
To William Pekerynge, a ballet, called a Ryse and }
Wake } 0 0 4
(From the books of the Stationers' Company).
See pp. 13, 15, 126, and 133, of Mr. Nichols's work.]
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