William Caxton

by E. Gordon Duff

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

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	[Binding with Caxton's Dies] [From the cover of a book in the library of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.]	[Frontispiece]
I.	[Prologue from the Bartholomaeus] This contains the verse relating to Caxton's first learning to print. [From the copy in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.] (Erratum: Read Prologue for Epilogue on Plate I.)	[22]
II.	[The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye] Printed in Caxton's Type 1. Leaf 253, the first of the third book. [From the copy in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.]	[28]
III.	[Epilogue to Boethius] Printed in Caxton's Type 3. [From the copy in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.]	[36]
IV.	[The Dictes or Sayengis of the Philosophres] Printed in Caxton's Type 2. [From the copy in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.]	[38]
V.	[Caxton's Advertisement] Printed in Caxton's Type 3. Intended as an advertisement for the Pica or Directorium ad usum Sarum. [From the copy in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.]	[42]
VI.	[The Mirrour of the World] Printed in Caxton's Type 2*. The woodcuts in this book are the first used in England. [From the copy in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.]	[50]
VII.	[The Mirrour of the World] Printed in Caxton's Type 2*. This shows a diagram with the explanations filled in in MS. [From the copy in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.]	[50]
VIII.	[The Game and Playe of the Chesse] Printed in Caxton's Type 2*. The wood-cut represents the philosopher who invented the game. [From the copy in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.]	[52]
IX.	[Liber Festivalis] Printed in Caxton's Type 4*. The colophon to the second part of the book entitled "Quattuor Sermones." [From the copy in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.]	[56]
X.	[Chaucer's Canterbury Tales] Printed in Caxton's Type 4*. This is the second edition printed by Caxton, but the first with illustrations. [From the copy in the British Museum.]	[58]
XI.	[The Fables of Esope] Printed in Caxton's Type 4*. These two cuts show the ordinary type of work throughout the book. [From the copy in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.]	[60]
XII.	[The Fables of Esope] The wood-cut here shewn is engraved in an entirely different manner from the rest. [From the copy in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.]	[60]
XIII.	[The Fables of Esope] Shewing the only ornamental initial letter used by Caxton. [From the copy in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.]	[62]
XIV.	[The Image of Pity] [From the unique wood-cut in the British Museum.]	[66]
XV.	[Speculum Vitæ Christi] Printed in Caxton's Type 5. The wood-cut depicts the visit of Christ to Mary and Martha. [From the copy in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.]	[66]
XVI.	[Caxton's Device] [From an example in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.]	[70]
XVII.	[Legenda ad usum Sarum ] Printed at Paris by W. Maynyal, probably for Caxton. The book is known only from fragments. [From a leaf in the University Library, Cambridge.]	[70]
XVIII.	[The Indulgence of 1489] Printed in Caxton's Type 7. This type is not mentioned by Blades in his Life of Caxton. [From a copy in the British Museum.]	[72]
XIX.	[The Boke of Eneydos] Printed in Caxton's Type 6. This page gives Caxton's curious story about the variations in the English language. [From the copy in the British Museum.]	[76]
XX.	[Ars Moriendi] Printed in Caxton's Type 6 [text] and 8 [heading]. [From the unique copy in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.]	[76]
XXI.	[Servitium de Transfiguratione Jesu Christi] Printed in Caxton's Type 5. [From the unique copy in the British Museum.]	[78]
XXII.	[The Crucifixion] Used by Caxton in the Fifteen Oes, and frequently afterwards by Wynkyn de Worde. [From an example in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.]	[78]
XXIII.	[The Lyf of Saint Katherin] Printed by W. de Worde with a modification of Caxton's Type 4*. The large initials serve to distinguish de Worde's work from Caxton's. [From the copy in the British Museum.]	[80]
XXIV. and XXV.	[The Metamorphoses of Ovid] Two leaves, one with the colophon, from a manuscript prepared by Caxton for the press, and perhaps in his own hand. [From the MS. in the Pepysian Library, Magdalene College, Cambridge.]	[82]