The Printer & the Pardoner. An Unrecorded Indulgence Printed by William Caxton for the Hospital of St. Mary Rounceval...
Washington, D.C. Library of Congress, 1986,
First Edition. quarto, cloth in dust jacket. 101pp. Library of Congress, Very fine copy in a very fine, clean dust jacket without wear. Item #4198
From the dust jacket: "In a remarkable feat of synthesis and historical imagination, Needham weaves together the stories of Wiliam Caxton..., of the broadside indulgence he printed, and of the institution he printed it for. The most common surviving form of early job-printing, indulgence instruments were used to raise funds for the Roman church and its institutions. the Printer & the Pardoner...tells the story of that hospital, notorious for fund-raising activities carried on by such as Chaucer's Pardoner. Literary history, church history, printing history, and political and social history intersect in the study of the Rounceval indulgence." The text of the St. Mary Rounceval indulgence is presented in Appendix A. All thirteen vellum strips are reproduced on a foldout page at the same size as the originals. Also with an additional nineteen black-and- white illustrations. Designed by Stephen Harvard.
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