Scala perfectionis (English text)

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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)

Place of OriginLondon, England

Date1533

DimensionsSheet Size: 7 3/8 × 5 5/8 in. (18.7 × 14.3 cm)

Mediumprinted book

ClassificationBooks

Credit LineMartin V. Kelley

Object number

1916.51

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Description149 printed leaves.

Label TextWynkyn 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.