Thus endeth the legende named in Latyn legenda aurea that is to saye in Englysshe The golden legende

Higher resolution images of this copy are available on  Digital Commonwealth . Title from leaf CCCCxliiii; imprint from ISTC. Signatures: pi⁶ a–z⁸ [et]⁸ [con]⁶ A–V⁸ X⁶ Y² chi²⁻¹ aa–ff⁸ gg⁶ hh-ii⁸ kk⁶. Royal folio; printed in double columns, a2 recto: 55 lines plus headline, 276 (287) x 173 mm; types: 3:135G (headlines, headings of table, headings, first lines and colophons of chapters, lettering in cut on pi3 recto), 4:95(100)B* (text), headlines in the reprinted quires are set in type 5:113G and text is set in 4:95(100)B*; initial spaces, most with guide letters. Errors in folation, misnumbering: lii-liiii as lviiii, lvi, and lv; Cxlviii as Cxlvii, Clviii as Clvii, Clxiiii as Clxv, Clxxiii as CLxxiiii, CCCxiii and CCCxiiii as CCCviii and CCCxi, CCCxlix as CCCxlvii, CCClxvii-CCClxviii as CCClxvi-CCClxvii, CCClxxii as CCClxvi, CCClxxiiii-CCClxxvi as CCClxxi, CCClxxi, and CCClxxii, CCCCiii as CCCCiiii [i.e. 52-54 as 59, 56, and 55; 148 as 147, 158 as 157, 164 as 165, 173 as 174, 313-314 as 308 and 311, 349 as 347, 367-368 as 366-367, 372 as 366, 374-376 as 371, 371, and 372; 403 as 404] Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, XI, 144 Catalogue of books printed in the fifteenth century now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, J-068 Duff, E.G. Fifteenth century English books, 408 English short title catalogue, S541 Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, J148 Incunabula short title catalogue, ij00148000 Ricci, S. de. A census of Caxtons, 98-17 "Quires a-t and A-E of The Golden Legend exist in a single setting. The remaining quires are known in duplicate settings. One setting [A] of these quires has the same layout as the common quires a-t and A-E, using type 3 for the headlines. The other setting [B] used type 5 for the headlines. Most copies consist of either only A-settings or only B-settings for these duplicated quires, but a few copies contain mixtures of A- and B-quires. There is good reason to believe that the duplicat