The vision of Pierce Plowman : now the second tyme imprinted by Roberte Crowlye dwellynge in Elye rentes in Holburne : whereunto are added certayne notes and cotations in the mergyne, geuyng light to the reader : and in the begynning is set a brefe summe of all the principal matters spoken of in the boke : and as the boke is deuided into twenty partes called Passus : so is the Summary diuided, for euery parte hys summarie, rehearsynge the matters spoken of in euery parte, euen in suche order as they stande there.

Engraved armorial bookplate on front paste-down: "Maurice Johnson, Esq., Ayscough-Fee Hall, Co. Lincoln" (this is the antiquarian and founder of the Spalding Gentlemen's Society, who lived from 1688 to 1755); marginalia, likely in Johnson's hand, comparing printed text to an unidentified manuscript, on leaves C4v and 2G2v; "descendit ad Inf." inscribed (in Johnson's hand?) in margin of leaf 2C1v; incorrect foliation corrected in ink on leaves N2r and U3r; notes concerning passages of interest and their corresponding leaf numbers written (in Johnson's hand?) on leaves 2G2r and 2G2v; several inscriptions in pencil on bookplate; several bookseller's inscriptions in pencil on rear paste-down, including "C.P. / 31.3.98 Hz[?]" (likely a reference to the 1898 Sotheby's sale at which some of Johnson's library was offered); two copies of bookseller's description (one fragmentary; each slightly different), by Liber Antiquus, Early Books & Manuscripts, Chevy Chase, Maryland, available in MSS 466, box 4, folder 235.

MSU: Final blank (leaf 2G2) present.

MSU: Variant, with "tyme" for "time" in second line of title.

In contemporary English blind-tooled calf; boards tooled with medallion portrait rolls separated by decorative architectural and floral flourishes (bookseller's description: "The roll is apparently Oldham's no. 782, used on London bindings between 1530 and 1569"); rebacked in 19th-century(?) calf, stamped and tooled in gilt, with a black leather spine label lettered in gilt; housed in a brown morocco clamshell box, made by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, London, England.