In the state of innocensye
By: by Jacobus a Voragine ; with nine relief prints by Ron King.
Contributors: Jacobus, de Voragine, ca. 1229-1298.; King, Ronald, 1932-; Petrus, Comestor, 12th cent.; Chimaera Press.; Press Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Chimaera Press
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Beckenham
Language: enm
Number of pages: 54
Subjects: Creation -- Early works to 1800; Fall of man -- Early works to 1800; English language -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- Texts
Notes: Not by Jacobus de Voragine, as claimed. An excerpt from William Caxton's Middle English translation of the Legenda aurea, specifically the first three-quarters of a section interpolated by Caxton (and nowhere included in Jacobus de Voragine's Latin original) titled: The lyf of Adam.
According to Sarah M. Horrall, writing in Medium aevum, LIII (1984), p. 92, Caxton's Lyf of Adam is largely taken from Petrus Comestor's Historia scholastica.
Limited ed. of 100 signed copies.
LC has copy no. 50.
Source: Purchase, June 28, 1990.