Gull's Hornbook

Authors:

Dekker, Thomas (c1572-c1632)

Nott, John (Dr.) (Ed.)

Published:

Bristol : J.M. Gutch, 1812

Format:

sm. 4to., half calf gilt

Catalogue description:

edited from the edition of 1609, with Glossary and Notes (by Dr. Nott), (only 100 copies printed)

Number of volumes:

Languages:

English

Sale price:

15s.

Appears in:

Devonshire Terrace (1844)

Sotheran's Valuation (c1871)

Stonehouse Catalogue (1878)

CD Junior's Catalogue

Source reference:

S026.8; V07.19; P4c715b; C038.11

Location in CD Junior's Catalogue:

Location in Sotheran's valuation:

Library, shelving under bookcase left of fireplace (D4), item 03

Stonehouse Catalogue:

'This work affords a greater insight into the fashionable follies and vulgar habits of Queen Elizabeth's day, than perhaps any other extant.'

DLO admin:

Acquired by Dickens for (8/-) at the auction of book-collector Thomas Hill's library by Evans of Pall Mall in March 1841; see Pilgrim Letters 4, pp. 229-30&nn.