A Trewe & feythfull Hystorie of the redoubtable Prynce Radapanthus
Publisher: Reprinted by R. and A. Taylor
Published: 1820
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 58
Description: <p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">16mo. pp. [40]. Calf. One of 75 copies on plain paper of a total edition of 80 copies. Penciled bibliographic notation on front free endpaper.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">The book, in Gothic type, purports to be a reprint of a ‘very scarce Romance, in the possession of the Editor,’ a unique copy by Wynkyn de Worde but the text is in fact an invention by John Adey Repton (1775-1860), whose name is spelled out by the illuminated chapter initials.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_4103474" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>