![134
Bread.- Here beginneth the Booke, named the Assise of Breade, what it ought to weygh, after the price of a Quarter of wheate. And also the Assyse of Ale, with all maner of wood and Cole, Lath, Boord, and Tymber, and the weyght of Butter and Cheese, collation: A-D4, largely printed in black letter, four-part woodcut title-vignette, small woodcut illustrations at head of four columns of text to many leaves, other typographic decorations and woodcut initials, later russet morocco, gilt, by F. Bedford, g.e., inner gilt dentelles, [STC 869.5], small 4to, Imprinted at London in Fleetestreate, beneath the Conduit, at the signe of S. John Evangelist, by Hugh Jackson, [c.1580].
*** The only recorded copy. The BL has a variant (STC 869) with different imprint and "ss" in "Assise" not the lower case beta s as this copy. No auction records, although 17th century works under a similar title do occasionally appear.
Rothamsted acquisition date 1924.](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/xlarge/99cf35e6-9a90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/f82cb522-b091-ee11-817b-6045bdfc47ac.webp "134
Bread.- Here beginneth the Booke, named the Assise of Breade, what it ought to weygh, after the price of a Quarter of wheate. And also the Assyse of Ale, with all maner of wood and Cole, Lath, Boord, and Tymber, and the weyght of Butter and Cheese, collation: A-D4, largely printed in black letter, four-part woodcut title-vignette, small woodcut illustrations at head of four columns of text to many leaves, other typographic decorations and woodcut initials, later russet morocco, gilt, by F. Bedford, g.e., inner gilt dentelles, [STC 869.5], small 4to, Imprinted at London in Fleetestreate, beneath the Conduit, at the signe of S. John Evangelist, by Hugh Jackson, [c.1580].
*** The only recorded copy. The BL has a variant (STC 869) with different imprint and \"ss\" in \"Assise\" not the lower case beta s as this copy. No auction records, although 17th century works under a similar title do occasionally appear.
Rothamsted acquisition date 1924.")
Description
Bread.- Here beginneth the Booke, named the Assise of Breade, what it ought to weygh, after the price of a Quarter of wheate. And also the Assyse of Ale, with all maner of wood and Cole, Lath, Boord, and Tymber, and the weyght of Butter and Cheese, collation: A-D4, largely printed in black letter, four-part woodcut title-vignette, small woodcut illustrations at head of four columns of text to many leaves, other typographic decorations and woodcut initials, later russet morocco, gilt, by F. Bedford, g.e., inner gilt dentelles, [STC 869.5], small 4to, Imprinted at London in Fleetestreate, beneath the Conduit, at the signe of S. John Evangelist, by Hugh Jackson, [c.1580].
⁂ The only recorded copy. The BL has a variant (STC 869) with different imprint and "ss" in "Assise" not the lower case beta s as this copy. No auction records, although 17th century works under a similar title do occasionally appear.
Rothamsted acquisition date 1924.
Lot 134
Bread.- Here beginneth the Booke, named the Assise of Breade, what it ought to weygh, after the price of a Quarter of wheate. And also the Assyse of Ale, with all maner of wood and Cole, Lath, Boord, and Tymber, and the weyght of Butter and Cheese, Imprinted at London in Fleetestreate, beneath the Conduit, at the signe of S. John Evangelist, by Hugh Jackson, 1580.
Hammer Price: £15,000
Description
Bread.- Here beginneth the Booke, named the Assise of Breade, what it ought to weygh, after the price of a Quarter of wheate. And also the Assyse of Ale, with all maner of wood and Cole, Lath, Boord, and Tymber, and the weyght of Butter and Cheese, collation: A-D4, largely printed in black letter, four-part woodcut title-vignette, small woodcut illustrations at head of four columns of text to many leaves, other typographic decorations and woodcut initials, later russet morocco, gilt, by F. Bedford, g.e., inner gilt dentelles, [STC 869.5], small 4to, Imprinted at London in Fleetestreate, beneath the Conduit, at the signe of S. John Evangelist, by Hugh Jackson, [c.1580].
⁂ The only recorded copy. The BL has a variant (STC 869) with different imprint and "ss" in "Assise" not the lower case beta s as this copy. No auction records, although 17th century works under a similar title do occasionally appear.
Rothamsted acquisition date 1924.
Related Lots
Back To Auction Catalogue
Newsletter Signup
Keyword Alerts
You can now save your preferences to receive emails, or create a free lite account which gives you more features.
Would you like to receive personalised keyword alerts when new catalogues go live. If so, please indicate these below
Set a password to save your keyword alerts
Passwords are a minimum of 7 characters and must include an upper case letter, a lower case letter, a number and a special character.
Newsletter