THE NATIONAL TRUST

With the help of the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Art fund and many others, the National Trust has acquired the sole surviving copy of an early printed book, Sarum Missal, published by William Caxton in 1487.

It appears to have become the property of Sir Piers Legh V (1455-1527) on publication and had remained with the Legh family at Lyme Park, Cheshire until 1946. The liturgical book was the first to be printed in Paris in two-colours and was also the first to have Caxton's woodcut publisher's device.

It will be displayed at Lyme Park from the summer of 2009.

The above story from Ibookcollector newsletter # 130

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