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Scala perfectionis (English text)
Printer: Wynkyn de Worde (British | English, ca. 1456-1535)
Author: Walter Hilton (British, died 1396)
Author: Walter Hylton (Hilton) (British, died 1396)
Date: 1533
Dimensions:
Sheet Size: 7 3/8 × 5 5/8 in. (18.7 × 14.3 cm)
Medium: printed book
Place of Origin: London, England
Classification: Books
Credit Line: Martin V. Kelley
Object number: 1916.51
Label Text:Wynkyn de Worde, Caxton's successor, was one of the chief printers in London in the late fifteeenth and early sixteenth century. He had published the first edition of this book in 1494. On the back of the title page, the texts states: "Here after followeth the chaptyres of this present volume of Walter Hylton, named in layton (Scala perfectionis) englysshed, the ladder of preccyon..." Wynkyn de Worde's bold colophen ends the book.
Description149 printed leaves.
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