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  [Here begynneth the booke which the knyght of the toure made and speketh of many fayre ensamples and thensygnementys and techyng of his doughters]
  Date of publication:
  1484
  

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  La Tour Landry, Geoffroy de, 14th cent. ; Caxton, William, ca. 1422-1491.
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  Title from heading, a1r--cf. STC. A translation by William Caxton of the French original by Geoffroy La Tour Landry. Imprint from colophon. Signatures: pi⁴ a-m n⁴. Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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  [Here begynneth the table of a book entytled the book of good maners.]
  Date of publication:
  1487
  

  Author(s):

  Legrand, Jacques, ca. 1365-1415. ; Caxton, William, ca. 1422-1491.
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  A translation, by William Caxton, of: Legrand, Jacques. Le livre de bonnes moeurs. Title and imprint from STC. Signatures: a-g h¹⁰. Pagination and signature collation from Duff. Imperfect; lacks leaves a1 (title page) and ...
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  [Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive, Lombardica historia] [Wyllyam Caxton]
  Date of publication:
  1483
  

  Author(s):

  Jacobus, de Voragine, ca. 1229-1298. ; Caxton, William, ca. 1422-1491.
  Description:
  "Thus endeth the legende named in latyn legenda aurea that is to saye in englysshe the golden legende"--p. CCCCxliiii. T.p. lacking?; title suggested by NUC pre-1956 imprints. Attributed to Jacobus de Voragine by STC (2nd ...
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  [T]o the right noble, right excellent [and] vertuous prince George duc of Clarence Erle of warwyk and of salisburye, grete chamberlayn of Englond [and] leutenant of Irelond oldest broder of kynge Edward by the grace of god kynge of England and of frau[n]ce, your most humble seruant william Caxton amonge other of your seruantes sendes vnto you peas. helthe. ioye and victorye vpon your enemyes ...
  Date of publication:
  1474
  

  Author(s):

  Jacobus, de Cessolis, fl. 1288-1322 ; Caxton, William, ca. 1422-1491.
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  A translation by William Caxton, primarily from a French version by Jean de Vignay, of: Cessolis, Jacobus de. De ludo scachorum. Title from opening words of text, [A]2r. [A]3r opens: This booke conteyneth. iiii. traytees ...
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  [The cronycles of Englond]
  Date of publication:
  1482
  

  Author(s):

  Caxton, William, ca. 1422-1491.
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  Title and imprint from colophon. Beginning pi2r: In the yere of thyncarnacyon .. .--Cf. STC. Heading, a2r reads: How the land of Englond was fyrst named Albyon, and by what encheson it was so named. Also known as "Brut". ...
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  [The four sons of Aymon]
  Date of publication:
  1505
  

  Author(s):

  Caxton, William, ca. 1422-1491.
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  A translation by William Caxton of: Quatre fils Aimon. Title page lacking in all known copies. Place of publication and printer's name supplied and publication date estimated by STC; "A de Worde ed. of 8 May 1504 is mentioned ...
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  [Thystorye and lyf of the noble and crysten prynce Charles the grete kynge of Frauuce [sic]]
  Date of publication:
  1485
  

  Author(s):

  Caxton, William, ca. 1422-1491.
  Description:
  Translated by William Caxton from the French. Title from STC. Imprint from colophon. Signatures: a-m. Imperfect; lacks leaves a1, d1, h1 and m8. Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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  For as moche as late by the comau[n]dement of the right hye [and] noble princesse my right redoubted lady my lady Margarete by the grace of god Duchesse of Bourgoyne Brabant [et]c. [...] as to the historie of Iason [...]
  Date of publication:
  1477
  

  Author(s):

  Lefèvre, Raoul, fl. 1460. ; Caxton, William, ca. 1422-1491.
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  A translation by William Caxton, of Le Fefèvre, Raoul. Jason et Medée. Title from opening words of text. Imprint from STC. Signatures: a-s t⁶. Reproduction of the original in the British Library. Appears at reel 47 and at ...
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  Here begynneth a lytyll treatyse schortely compyled and called ars moriendi that is to saye the craft for to deye for the helthe of mannes sowle.
  Date of publication:
  1491
  

  Author(s):

  Caxton, William, ca. 1422-1491.
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  Caption title. Imprint from STC. A translation, by William Caxton, from the original French. Signatures: A. Reproduction of the original in the Bodleian Library.
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  Here begynneth the boke intituled Eracles, and also of Godefrey of Boloyne the whiche speketh of the conquest of the holy londe of Iherusalem ...
  Date of publication:
  1481
  

  Author(s):

  Caxton, William, ca. 1422-1491.
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  Title from caption, leaf "1"2r. Opening words of text, a2r: [T]he hye couragyous faytes, and valyaunt actes of noble illustrous and vertuous personnes ben digne to be recounted .. Colophon reads: Thus endeth this book ...
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  Here begynneth the book of the subtyl historyes and fables of Esope whiche were translated out of Frensshe in to Englysshe by wylliam Caxton at westmynstre in the yere of oure Lorde M. CCCC. lxxxiij
  Date of publication:
  1484
  

  Author(s):

  Aesop. ; Caxton, William, ca. 1422-1491.
  Description:
  Translated by William Caxton. Caption title, a2r. Publication date at colophon reads: M CCCC lxxxiiij Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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  Here begynneth the prologue or prohemye of the book callid Caton whiche booke hath ben translated in to Englysshe by Mayster Benet Burgh, late Archedeken of Colchestre and hye chanon of saint stephens at westmestre ... and by cause of late cam to my hand a book of the said Caton in Frensshe, whiche reherceth many a fayr lernynge and notable ensamples, I haue translated it oute of frensshe in to Englysshe, as al along here after shalle appiere, whiche I presente vnto the cyte of london,
  Date of publication:
  1484
  

  Author(s):

  Cato, Marcus Porcius, 234-149 B.C., attributed name. ; Caxton, William, ca. 1422-1491.
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  The original Latin text of the Disticha, with an anonymous prose paraphrase and commentary. The disticha, wrongly attributed to Marcus Porcius Cato, in fact date from imperial times. Caption title, pi2r. Printer's name ...
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  Here begynneth the table of the rubryshys of the boke of the fayt of armes and of chyualrye whiche sayd boke is departyd in to foure partyes ...
  Date of publication:
  1489
  

  Author(s):

  Christine, de Pisan, ca. 1364-ca. 1431. ; Caxton, William, ca. 1422-1491. ; Vegetius Renatus, Flavius. De re militari. ; Bonet, Honoré, fl. 1378-1398. Arbre des batailles.
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  A translation of: Faits d'armes et de chevalerie. Caption title, pi1r. Colophon reads: Thus endeth this boke whiche xp[ist]yne of pyse made [and] drewe out of the boke named vegecius de re militari [and] out of tharbre of ...
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  hEre begynneth the volume intituled and named the recuyell of the historyes of Troye, composed and drawen out of dyuerce bookes of latyn in to frensshe by the ryght venerable persone and worshipfull man. Raoul le ffeure. preest and chapelayn vnto the ryght noble gloryous and myghty prynce in his tyme Phelip duc of Bourgoyne of Braband [et]c in the yere of the incarnacion of our lord god a thousand foure honderd sixty and foure, and translated and drawen out of frenshe in to englisshe by Willyam Caxton mercer of ye cyte of London, at the comau[n]deme[n]t of the right hye myghty and vertuouse pryncesse hys redoubtyd lady. Margarete by the grace of god. Duchesse of Bourgoyne of Lotryk of Braband [et]c., whiche sayd translacion and werke was ... fynysshid in the holy cyte of Colen the. xix. day of septembre the yere of our sayd lord god a thousand foure honderd sixty and enleuen [sic] [et]c ...
  Date of publication:
  1473
  

  Author(s):

  Lefèvre, Raoul, fl. 1460. ; Caxton, William, ca. 1422-1491.
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  A translation of: Recueil des histoires de Troye. Title from ¹[A]2r, which is printed in red. Imprint from STC and Needham; see also Lotte Hellinga, "Caxton in focus", p. 38-9, 48. Signatures: [A-O¹⁰ P; A-I¹⁰ K L⁶; A-K¹⁰]. ...
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  Here begynneth thystorye of the noble ryght valyaunt [and] worthy knyght Parys, and of the fayr Vye[n]ne the daulphyns doughter of vyenneys the whyche sufferd many aduersytees bycause of theyr true loue or they coude enioye the effect therof of eche other,
  Date of publication:
  1485
  

  Author(s):

  Pierre, de la Cépède, 15th cent. ; Caxton, William, ca. 1422-1491.
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  A translation by William Caxton of "Paris et Vienne" by Pierre de la Cépède, the French version of a tale found in numerous European versions. Title from opening words of text. Imprint from colophon. The final leaf is ...
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  Here endeth the book named the dictes or sayengis of the philosophhres ...
  Date of publication:
  1477
  

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  Mubashshir ibn Fātik, Abū al-Wafāʼ, 11th cent. Mukhtār al-ḥikam wa-maḥāsin al-kalim. ; Rivers, Anthony Woodville, Earl, 1442?-1483. ; Caxton, William, ca. 1422-1491.
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  A translation, by Anthony Woodville, Earl Rivers, of a French version by Guillaume de Tignonville of a compilation ultimately based on: Mubashshir ibn Fātik, Abū al-Wafā'. Mukhtār al-ḥikam wa-maḥāsin al-kalim. Revised and ...
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  hEre endeth the book named the dictes or sayengis of the philosophres enprynted. by me william Caxton at westmestre the yere of our lord .M.CCCC.Lxx vij. Whiche book is late translated out of Frenshe into englyssh. by the noble and puissant lord Lord Antone Erle of Ryuyers lord of Scales ...
  Date of publication:
  1480
  

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  Mubashshir ibn Fātik, Abū al-Wafāʼ, 11th cent. Mukhtār al-ḥikam wa-maḥāsin al-kalim. ; Rivers, Anthony Woodville, Earl, 1442?-1483. ; Caxton, William, ca. 1422-1491.
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  A translation, by Anthony Woodville, Earl Rivers, of a French version by Guillaume de Tignonville of a compilation ultimately based on: Mubashshir ibn Fātik, Abū al-Wafā'. Mukhtār al-ḥikam wa-maḥāsin al-kalim. Revised and ...
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  Here foloweth the copye of a lettre whyche maistre Alayn Charetier wrote to hys brother ... translated out of frensshe in to englysshe
  Date of publication:
  1483
  

  Author(s):

  Chartier, Alain, 15th cent. ; Caxton, William, ca. 1422-1491.
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  A translation of: Chartier, Alain. Le curial. Imprint from STC. Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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  Here fynyssheth the boke yf [sic] Eneydos, compyled by Vyrgyle, which hathe be translated oute of latyne in to frenshe, and oute of frenshe reduced in to Englysshe by me wyll[ia]m Caxton, the xxij. daye of Iuyn. the yere of our lorde. M.iiij.Clxxxx. The fythe yere of the regne of kynge Henry the seuenth
  Date of publication:
  1490
  

  Author(s):

  Virgil. Aeneis. ; Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375. De casibus virorum illustrium. ; Caxton, William, ca. 1422-1491.
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  A translation of a French version by Guillaume Le Roy of an Italian paraphrase of parts of the "Aeneid" by Virgil and "De casibus illustrium virorum" by Giovanni Boccaccio. Title from colophon. With Caxton's mark on L7v. ...
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  Hier begynneth the book callid the myrrour of the worlde ...
  Date of publication:
  1481
  

  Author(s):

  Gossuin, of Metz, attributed name. ; Caxton, William, ca. 1422-1491. ; Vincent, of Beauvais, d. 1264, attributed name.
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  A translation of a prose version of: Image du monde. Sometimes attributed to Gossuin of Metz; misattributed to Vincent of Beauvais. Translated by William Caxton, whose name appears on a4v. The dates of translation are given ...
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