Io. Gower De confessione amantis
Contributors: Berthelet, Thomas, printer; Heber, Richard, 1773-1833, former owner; Wayland, H., former owner; Northmore, Thomas, 1766-1851, former owner; Griswold, Almon Whiting, former owner; Winsor, Justin, 1831-1897, autographer; Barton, Thomas Pennant, 1803-1869, former owner; Bedford, Francis, 1799-1883, binder
Publisher: By Thomas Berthelette
Published: 1554
Place of publication: Imprinted at London in Flete-Strete
Language: eng
Other titles: Jo. Gower de confessione amantis; De confessione amantis
Work titles: Confessio amantis
Notes: Signatures: *́œ A-2Íœ.

2F2, 2G3, and 2I1 missigned F2, G3, and I1.

Title within woodcut border; text printed in double columns.

Woodcut initials.

Boston Public Library. Catalogue of the Barton Collection, Shakespeariana, page 116

Carl H. Pforzheimer Library, entry 422

English short title catalogue, entry S120946

Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.), entry 12144

Cataloged 2015 jmoschella

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound by Francis Bedford in umber morocco panelled in triple-ruled gilt. The armorial super-ex-libris of Almon W. Griswold is present on both covers. The armorial bookplate of the Barton Library is present on the front pastedown. The spine is panelled and tooled in gilt. Present on the verso of the penultimate front endpaper is an inscription related to the volume's provenance initialed by Justin Winsor. The next leaf, being an earlier endpaper, contains the autograph of Thomas Northmore and inscriptions in the hand of Richard Heber on both the recto and verso. The autograph of H. Wayland, in a ca. late 16th-century hand, is present at the foot of the title page. In this copy, the final leaf (blank) is wanting.