Title: The kalender of shepherdes ;
Authors: Sommer, H. Oskar; Praetorius, Charles.; Pynson, Richard,; Catholic Church
Date: 1892
Publisher: K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & co.,ltd.,
Physical description: 3 volumes in 1 : illustrations(facsimiles) ; 26 cm
Language: English
LC classification: A
Contents: I. Prolegomena -- II. Photographic facsimile of the edition, Paris 1503 / [executed by Charles Praetorius from the original in the Duke of Devonshire's library at Chatsworth] -- III. Reprint of R. Pynson's edition,London 1506 / [from the copy in the Grenville collection in the British Museum. Omits the woodcuts].
Notes: "Only 300 copies of this edition are printed" Two early versions from the French: the first in broad Scots, printed at Paris in 1503, probably by Antoine Verard, under title, the "Kalendayr of Shypars"; the second, a revised English edition of the Scottish, printed by Pynson, 1506, under title "Kalender of Shepherdes." "Various editions of ʻLe compost et Kalendrier des bergiers'... [and] of The Kalender of Shepherds": p.[27]-59. Cf. E. Gordon Duff: The first two books printed in the Scottish language (Papers of the Edinburgh bibliographical society. v. 1, no. 14)
Subject headings (LCSH): Almanacs, English.; Almanacs, French--Translations into English.; Almanacs, French--Translations into Scots.; Early printed books--France--Paris--16th century--Facsimiles.