Barlaam and Josephat

by William Caxton

$500 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

Greenbrae: The Allen Press, 1986. 8vo, 53 pp. Blue cloth lettered in rust colored ink on upper cover and backstrip. A fine copy in acetate dust jacket with the original prospectus laid in. § Edition of 140 copies. A Christianized telling of the life of the Buddah, translated and first published by William Caxton in the Golden Legend in 1484. Designed, printed, and bound by Lewis and Dorothy Allen. Item #126907

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