once sent to Francis Bedford for binding,
with instructions to have the "inlaying, repairing etc. done over in
the very best manner, by the best restorer in France or England." Bound
in brown morocco, richly blind-tooled, with Tudor rose, fleur-de-lis and
acorn emblems. Leaf 10-1/4 x 7-1/2 in. The Smets fly-leaf and the
original instructions sent to Mr. Bedford with the volume and returned
by him with an added note over his own signature, laid in.

Other copies of the Polychronicon which have passed through Mr.
Bedford's hands have been bound in the same style, among them the
Menzies copy, sold New York, November, 1876, which de Ricci wrongly
conjectured might be identical with the Smets.

25. ORDINARY OF CHRISTIAN MEN. London, Wynkyn de Worde, 1506.

_Fol. 1^a._ TITLE: Thordinary of Crysten men [woodcut below.] _Fol.
1^b-4^b, table of contents._ _Fol. 5^a_ [woodcut above]: Here begynneth
a notable treatyse and ful necessarye to all crysten men for to knowe &
it is named the Ordynary of Crystyens or of crysten men. _Fol. 217^b_:
Here endeth the book named the ordynarye of crysten men newely hystoryed
and translated out of Frensshe in to Englysshe. Enprynted in the cyte of
London in the Fletestrete in the sygne of y^e sonne by Wnykyn de worde.
y^e yere of our lorde .M.CCCCC.vi. _Fol. 218^a, title repeated over
woodcut._ _Fol. 218^b_, [PRINTER'S DEVICE]

Quarto. Sign. Aa^4, A^6, B^4, C-X, AA-NN^{8, 4 (altern.)}, OO^6,
PP^{5}+{1}. 218 leaves, gothic letter, 34 lines (marginal citations
60 lines) to the page, without foliation. Title cut in large
lower-case letters on block 2 x 4 in. Five- and six-line initials
at the head of the larger divisions of the text. Ten woodcuts, one
repeated. The final blank PP. 6 has been replaced by an independent
leaf having on the one side the title repeated with woodcut, and on
the other the printer's device, either of which may in the binding
be made the recto. The device is the first of his so-called
"Sagittarius" forms, and the one most commonly used from 1506 to
1518. Ames-Dibdin, ii, p. 103. Morgan Cat. iii, p. 214, n. 743.

The present copy lacks the first four leaves, containing the title and
the table of contents; but both the title and the woodcut accompanying
it are repeated elsewhere in the volume, the title on fol. 218^a, the
woodcut on fol. 87^a.

Of the French original, _L'ordinaire des chrestiens_, at least six
ed