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4 pp. Window mounted original leaf. (4to) 33.2x26.7 cm. (13x10½"), original gilt stamped sheep by Zaehnsdorf.

"This original Caxton leaf is from the First Edition of Ranulf Higden's Policronicon translated into English by John Trevisa, and continued and printed by William Caxton at Westminster in 1482. The Policronicon, a universal history, was originally compiled in the Fourteenth Century from various early sources by Ranulph Higden, a Benedictine Monk of St Werburg's, Chester, and was translated into English in 1387 by John Trevisa, Chaplain to the Earl of Berkeley. The whole of this work Caxton revised, continuing the Chronicle up to the year 1460. This continuation is the only extant piece of Caxton's own composition." (from preface). The present leaf is from Liber Septimus.