Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Booke of Englysh Metre, of the Great Marchaunt Man Called "Dives Pragmaticus" 1563: Reproduced in Facsimile From the Copy in the John Rylands Library
The tract here reproduced in facsimile is believed to be the sole surviving copy of Dives Progmotz'cus, the great Marchaunt man, a child's book printed in the year 1563. This copy is mentioned by Ritson 1 in 1802, when it was in the possession of the Duke of Roxburghe. At the sale of the Roxburghe Library in 1 812 it was bought by Dibdin 2 for the sum of thirty pounds for Lord Spencer, from whose hands it passed into the John Rylands Library in 1892.
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