Transcriber's Note
The spelling in parts of this book is from the 15th century, some centuries before spelling rules existed. The text is as printed.
Sundry missing or damaged punctuation has been repaired.
Both hyphenated and non-hyphenated variants of many words occur in this book. All have been retained.
Illustrations which interrupted paragraphs have been moved to more convenient positions between paragraphs, and Index page numbers amended, if necessary.
Some of the Plates have comments in the margins and/or museum stamps. Though not always clear, these have been retained, as possibly providing some further information to the reader.
Page 24: 'plait' corrected to 'plaît'.
"tôt ou tard, s'il plaît à Dieu, sur William Caxton...."
Page 93: '8' corrected to 'a'.