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A Trewe & feythfull Hystorie of the redoubtable Prynce Radapanthus

by Wynkyn de Worde, John A. (John Adey)] [Repton

<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:no

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