Wynkyn de Worde’s indulgence and Thomas Bewick’s extra illustrations ...
THE rarest and probably the earliest piece of printing in a February 26 sale held by Pacific Book Auctions of San Francisco, the papal indulgence from Wynkyn de Worde’s press seen right, was bid to $13,000 (£6890), but there were some other early items in the collection of editions of Aesop’s Fables formed by the late Dr Margaret Rose Quentin that opened the auction.
The oldest of them was a 1561 Paris printing which, despite measuring just 4in x 2in (10 x 5cm), pac…