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  electronicReproduction:
    - display: British Library IA.55011
      url: http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100103035920.0x000001
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  generalNotes:
    - Created by David Shaw
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  hostItemId: ir00365300
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  paperSizeHeight: 196
  paperSizeWidth: 139
  physicalDescriptionNote: Leaves 2 and 3 have been transposed in the binding.  A printed catalogue description for the Caxton exhibition at the South Kensington Museum in 1877 is bound in at the beginning.
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          name: Holkham Hall
          note: A residence of the Coke family from the early 17th century
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          name: 'Coke, Edward, Sir'
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          dates: 1697-1759
          gender: 1002
          name: 'Coke, Thomas, 1st Earl of Leicester'
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          type: person
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          dates: 1841-1850
          name: 'Clarke and Bedford, bookbinders'
          note: 'In partnership in London, 1841-1850.'
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          gender: 1002
          name: 'Chantrey, Francis'
          note: 'librarian at Holkham Hall, c. 1842-1860.'
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          role: R479
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        - characterisation:
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          dates: mid 19th century
          gender: 1002
          name: 'Collyer, Robert'
          note: Librarian at Holkham Hall
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          professionOrType:
            - lic
          role: R479
          type: person
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          dates: 1908-1976
          gender: 1002
          name: 'Coke, Thomas Edward William, 5th Earl of Leicester'
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      bindingDate: w
      bindingNote: 'Bound by Clarke and Bedford in brown morocco, tooled in blind and gold, previously in a vellum wrapper  (BMC)'
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      bindingType: c
      certainty: b
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        Bound in at the beginning: a note in the hand of Francis Chantrey, librarian at Holkham c. 1842- c. 1860, describing the book as printed 'in 1469 by Caxton when he was in the Low Countries', and a note in the hand of the Revd Robert Collyer, a colleague of Chantrey.
        A printed catalogue description for the Caxton exhibition at the South Kensington Museum in 1877 is bound in at the beginning.
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          name: Holkham
      shelfmark:
        - note: 'C.1.A5: Holkham Hall shelfmark in pencil in the top right-hand margin of the fly leaf (BMC)'
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        start: 1600
      tooling: c
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        - areaCode: e-uk-en
      certainty: a
      note: 'Bought from Thomas Edward William Coke, 5th Earl of Leicester, November 1951 (BMC)'
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        start: 1951
  shelfmark: IA.55011
  source: 'Blades 7 (12); BMC XI, 103; Duff 367; STC 21458; De Ricci 90: 2.'
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  history:
    - date: 2019-05-09T14:32:11
    - date: 2019-05-13T20:56:37
    - date: 2019-05-14T08:56:40
    - date: 2019-05-15T20:28:57
    - date: 2021-03-19T11:21:59
    - date: 2021-03-19T11:23:21