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This scan shows the title page from the 1772 edition of John Leland’s New Year’s Gift, which was printed as a fac-simile (such as technology then allowed) of the original 1549 edition of John Bale.
My copy is bound in with The Lives of John Leland, Thomas Hearne and Anthony à Wood, and various other papers and documents.
The labor-
youse Journey & serche
of John Leylande, for Englandes
Antiquities, geuen of hym as a newe
years gyfte to Kynge Henry the
viii. in the. xxxvii. yeare of
his Reygne, with decla-
racyons enlarged:
By Johan bale.
[...]
To be sold in fletestrete at the signe
of the Croune next unto the whyte
Fryears gate.
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