APPENDIX B.
Books Printed by Caxton.
To our first printer are assigned 64 works, from 1471 to 1491. We subjoin a list of them, furnished to the 'Penny Cyclopædia' by Sir Henry Ellis, Principal Librarian of the British Museum. In this list are included the French edition of the 'Recueil,' and the Oration of Russell, which are considered doubtful.
1. 'Le Recueil des Histoires de Troyes, compose par raoulle le feure, chapellein de Monseigneur le duc Philippe de Bourgoingne en l'an de grace mil cccclxiiii.' fol.
2. 'Propositio clarissimi Oratoris Magistri Johannis Russell, decretorum doctoris ac adtunc Ambassiatoris Edwardi Regis Anglie et Francie ad illustr. Principem Karolum ducem Burgundie super susceptione ordinis garterij, &c. 4to.
3. 'The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye, composed and drawen out of diverce bookes of latyn into Frensshe by Raoul le ffeure in the yere 1464, and drawen out of frensshe in to Englisshe by William Caxton at the commaundement of Margarete Duchess of Burgoyne, &c., whych sayd translacion and werke was begonne in Brugis in 1468 and ended in the holy cyte of Colen 19 Sept. 1471,' fol.
4. 'The Game and Playe of the Chesse, translated out of the French, fynysshid the last day of Marche, 1474,' fol.
5. A second edition of the same, fol. (with woodcuts).
6. 'A Boke of the hoole lyf of Jason,' (1475,) fol.
7. 'The Dictes and notable wyse Sayenges of the Phylosophers, transl. out of Frenshe by lord Antoyne Wydeville Erle Ryuyeres, empr. at Westmestre, 1477,' fol.
8. 'The Morale Prouerbes of Christyne (of Pisa),' fol. 1478.
9. 'The Book named Cordyale: or Memorare Novissima, which treateth of The foure last Things,' begun 1478, finished 1480, fol.
10. 'The Chronicles of Englond,' Westm., 1480, fol.
11. 'Description of Britayne,' 1480, fol.
12. 'The Mirrour of the World or thymage of the same,' 1481, fol.
13. 'The Historye of Reynart the Foxe,' 1481, fol.
14. 'The Boke of Tullius de Senectute, with Tullius de Amicitia, and the Declamacyon, which laboureth to shew wherein honour sholde reste,' 1481, fol.
15. 'Godefroy of Boloyne; or, the laste Siege and Conqueste of Jherusalem,' Westm., 1481, fol.
16. 'The Polycronycon,' 1482, fol.
17. 'The Pylgremage of the Sowle;' translated from the French, Westm., 1483, fol.
18. 'Liber Festivalis, or Directions for keeping Feasts all the Yere,' Westm., 1483, fol.
19. 'Quatuor Sermones' (without date), fol.
20. 'Confessio Amantis, that is to saye in Englisshe, The Confessyon of the Louer, maad and compyled by Johan Gower, squyer,' Westm., 1483, fol.
21. 'The Golden Legende,' Westm., 1483, fol.
22. Another edition of 'The Legende,' sm. folio.
23. A third, 'fin. at Westmestre,' 20th May, 1483, fol.
24. 'The Booke callid Cathon' (Magnus), translated from the French, 1483, fol.
25. 'Parvus Chato' (without printer's name or date, but in Caxton's type), folio.
26. 'The Knyght of the Toure,' translated from the French; Westm. (1484), fol.
27. 'The Subtyl Historyes and Fables of Esope,' translated from the French, 1484, fol.
28. 'The Book of the Ordre of Chyvalry, or Knyghthode,' translated from the French (assigned to 1484), fol.
29. 'The Book ryal; or the Book for a Kyng,' 1484, fol.
30. 'A Book of the noble Historyes of Kynge Arthur and of certen of his Knyghtes, which book was reduced in to Englysshe by syr Thomas Malory Knyght,' 1485, fol.
31. 'The Lyf of Charles the Grete Kyng of Fraunce and Emperour of Rome,' 1485, fol.
32. Another edition of the same, 1485, fol.
33. 'Thystorye of the noble ryght valyaunt and worthy Knyghte Parys and of the fayr Vyenne, the doulphyns doughter of Vyennoys,' translated from the French, 1485, fol.
34. 'The Book of Good Maners,' 1486, fol.
35. 'The Doctrinal of Sapyence,' translated from the French, 1489, fol.
36. 'The Book of Fayttes of Armes and of Chyvalrye,' a translation from the first part of Vegetius de Re Militari, 1489, fol.
37. 'The Arte and Crafte to knowe well to dye,' translated from the French, 1490, fol.
38. 'The Boke of Eneydos, compyled by Vyrgyle,' translated from the French, 1490, fol.
39. 'The Talis of Cauntyrburye' (no date), fol.
40. Another edition (without date or place), fol.
41. 'Infancia Salvatoris,' 4to.
42. 'The Boke of Consolacion of Philosophie, whiche that Boecius made for his comforte and consolacion' (no date nor place), fol.
43. A collection of Chaucer's and Lydgate's minor Poems, 4to.
44. 'The Book of Fame, made by Gefferey Chaucer,' fol.
45. 'Troylus and Creseyde,' fol.
46. 'A Book for Travellers,' fol.
47. 'The Lyf of St. Katherin of Senis,' fol.
48. 'Speculum Vite Christi; or the myrroure of the blessyd Lyf of Jhesu Criste,' fol.
49. 'Directorium Sacerdotum: sive Ordinale secundum Usum Sarum,' Westm., fol.
50. 'The Worke (or Court) of Sapience,' composed by John Lydgate, fol.
51. 'A Boke of divers Ghostly Maters,' Westm., fol.
52. 'The Curial made by Maystre Alain Charretier,' translated from the French, fol.
53. 'The Lyf of our Lady, made by Dan John Lydgate, monke of Burye,' fol.
54. 'The Lyf of Saynt Wenefryde, reduced into Englisshe,' fol.
55. 'A Lytel Tretise, intytuled or named The Lucidarye,' 4to.
56. 'Reverendissimi viri dni. Gulielmi Lyndewodi, LLD. et ep̄i Asaphensis constitutiones provinciales Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ,' 24mo.
57. 'The Hystorye of Kynge Blanchardyne and Queen Eglantyne his wyfe,' fol.
58. 'The Siege of the noble and invyncyble Cytee of Rhodes,' fol.
59. 'Statuta apud Westmonasterium edita, anno primo Regis Ricardi tercii,' fol.
60. 'Statutes' made in the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Parliaments of Henry VII., folio. (The only fragment of this work known consists of two leaves.)
61. 'The Accidence' (mentioned in one of the sale catalogues of the library of T. Martin of Palgrave).
62. 'The Prouffytable Boke of mānes soule, called The Chastysing of Goddes Chyldern,' fol.
63. 'Horæ,' &c., 12mo., a fragment of eight pages, now at Oxford, in the library bequeathed to the Bodleian by the late F. Douce, Esq.
64. A fragment of a Ballad, preserved in a volume of scraps and ballads in the British Museum.
From the time of Caxton's press to that of Thomas Hacket, we have the enumeration of 2926 books in Dr. Dibdin's work. The 'Typographical Antiquities' of Ames and Herbert comes down to a later period. They recorded the names of three hundred and fifty printers in England and Scotland, or of foreign printers engaged in producing books for England, that flourished between 1474 and 1600. The same authors have recorded the titles (we have counted with sufficient accuracy to make the assertion) of nearly 10,000 distinct works printed amongst us during the same period. Many of these works, however, were only single sheets; but on the other hand, there are doubtless many not here registered. Dividing the total number of books printed during these 130 years, we find that the average number of distinct works produced each year was 75.