The Little Gest of Robin Hood: A Note on the Pynson and Lettersnijder Editions
by
J. C. T. Oates
Pynson's edition of The Little Gest of Robin Hood (STC 13688), a quarto with 31 lines to the page, survives only in the following fragments: (1) a leaf signed cii, in the University Library, Cambridge (Oates, Catalogue of the Fifteenth-Century Printed Books, &c., no. 4206); (2) 1½ leaves formerly in the possession of Mr. Boies Penrose (A Selection of Rare Books. . . from the Library of Boies Penrose, &c., p. 29) but now by his gift in the Folger Library (The Folger Library: A Decade of Growth, 1950-1960, p. 25); (3) a leaf in the Bodleian Library, Douce fragments f. 51 (3).