Chronycle of Englonde
Contributors: Tomkinson, Michael, 1841-1921, former owner; Boule, Joannis, former owner
Publisher: Wynkyn de Worde
Published: 1502
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
Subjects: Early works to 1800; History
Other titles: St. Albans Chronicle.; The descrypcyon of Englonde.
Work titles: Chronicles of England
Notes: Title and imprint from first colophon (2c7): Here endeth this present Chronycle of Englonde with [the] fruyte of tymes. compyled in a booke and also enprynted by one some tyme scole mayster of saynt Albons uppon whoos soule god have mercy. Amen. And newely in the yere of oure Lorde god. M.CCCCC.ii. Empry[n]ted in flete strete in [the] sygne of the son[n]e by me Wynkyn de Worde.

"Third edition of the Chronicle; second of Descrypcyon ... This Chronicle differs from Caxton's mainly in having interpolated histories of popes and other ecclesiastical matters. However, it is an independent compilation, and derives its name from the place of printing of the first edition."--Pforzheimer.

Signatures: 2Áœ a-źœ [con]́œ 2a-2b́œ 2ćı A-Ćœ D́þ.

2A1, 2c8, and D4 = blank.

Black letter, printed in double colums with woodcut initials. William Caxton's device is present on 2c7v and D3v.

Carl H. Pforzheimer Library, entry 183

English short title catalogue, entry S121402

Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.), entry 9997

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound in ca. late 19th-/early 20th-century black morocco double panelled in blind over bevelled boards. The title is stamped in gilt on the spine and the binding is signed "Hammond" on the lower turn-in of the front cover. All text block edges are gilt. The armorial bookplate of Michael Tomkinson (Ex libris Michaelis Tomkinson, Franche Hall, Worcestershire) is present on the front pastedown, as is the bookplate of the BPL Benton Fund. This copy is heavily annotated throughout in an early, ca. 16th-century secretary hand or hands. Bibliographical inscriptions with respect to William Caxton and Wynkyn de Worde, both in the same, later hand, are present on each colophon leaf. An early ownership inscription ("Sum Joannis Boule et Amicoru[m] // Boule olim dict[um] Ba[mfylde?]") is present at the head of 2A2. On the same leaf, another early inscription, reading, "John Bamfy[lde?]" is also present. In this copy, all three blank leaves (2A1, 2c8, and D4) are wanting.