Note 136 — Early Typography. CHAPTER V.

Wetter, p. 527; but Humphreys, p. 88, says “twenty-eight leaves.” Not being in a position to make a reference to any copy of the work itself, I am unable to say which of these authorities is right. One of the finest specimens of this work extant, is that in the celebrated Astor Library at New York. The paper is as clean and the ink as fresh as the day on which it was printed. There are also in this Library several other Typographical treasures. Amongst them will be found the “Catholicon” of John of Genoa, printed at Augsburg in 1469; two specimens of Caxton, one of them a few leaves of the “Recuyell des Histories de Troye,” printed in 1471, and the other, Higden’s “Polychronicon,” printed in London, 1482. Glanville’s “De Proprietatibus Rerum,” printed by Wynken de Worde, the successor of Caxton, in 1494, is also a handsome specimen.