The English provincial printers, stationers and bookbinders to 1557Duff, E. Gordon (Edward Gordon)
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The English provincial printers, stationers and bookbinders to 1557
Duff, E. Gordon (Edward Gordon)
Book industries and trade -- Great Britain; Printing -- Great Britain -- History
It was pronounced in the
presence of Ursin Milnour, and three other persons, who are described
as laics of the respective dioceses of Rouen, Durham, and York.”
The original documents of this suit are still preserved in the registry
of the Dean and Chapter of York, and it is much to be desired that a
full reprint of them might be issued, as it is clear that they contain
many points of interest passed over by Davies in his abstract, as well
as names which might afford valuable evidence.
The books belonging to Wandsforth which are mentioned by name are,
we have seen, _Primaria_, _Doctrinalia_, _Alphabeta_, and _Hymni et
Sequentiæ_.
The only trace of an early York _Horæ_ or _Primer_ now known is an
unfolded imperfect quarter-sheet containing six out of eight leaves
of signature P among the Bagford fragments in the British Museum.
The book was of very small size, a 32º with fourteen lines to a full
page printed in black and red. The type is apparently Pynson’s, and
it is the only known book printed by him connected with York. But
another proof of his connexion with York has lately come to light, for
there has been found in the Plea Rolls for 1505 a notice of a lawsuit
brought by Pynson against Frederick Frees, bookseller of York, for
£5, 10s. 6d., perhaps relating to this very book. The _Doctrinalia_
and _Alphabeta_ were presumably school books, while the _Hymni et
Sequentiæ_ belonged to the edition already described. The foreign
printed books belonging jointly to the partners consisted of _Missals_,
_Breviaries_, and _Picas_. The _Missal_ and _Breviary_, printed at
Rouen by Violette, have already been described, but no copy of a
foreign printed York _Pica_ (or _Directorium_) is known. An edition,
shortly to be described, was printed in York in February 1509-10, which
is described in the colophon as revised and amended, and perhaps it was
reprinted from the lost foreign edition. Its competition might account
for the large number (570) remaining of the earlier edition in the
hands of Wandsforth’s executors.
The books actually printed in York are six in number, and are the work
of two printers, Hugo Goes and Ursyn Mylner. Goes has been conjectured
from his name to have been related to Matthias van der Goes, a printer
of Antwerp, but for this no proof is forthcoming. In 1509-10 he printed
an edition of the York _Directorium_, of which two copies are known,
one in York Minster wanting about fifteen leaves, the other in the
library of Sidney Sussex College wanting only the last leaf, which
would either have been blank or have contained a printer’s device.
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