Chapter II: Appendix

Extracts from records and wardens’ accounts of the Mercers’
Company--Will of Robert Large--Records at Bruges--St.
Margaret’s Church records--Guild of our Lady in same
church--The treaty of Burgundy--Caxton’s marriage
certificate 143-166

~Part II.~

DESCRIPTION OF PRINTED BOOKS.

_BOOKS PRINTED IN TYPE NO. 1._

1. The Recuyell of the Histories of Troye.
2. Le Recueil des histoires de Troyes.
3. The game and playe of the chesse, moralised. First Edition.
4. Les fais et prouesses du noble et vaillant chevalier Jason.
5. Meditacions sur les sept pseaulmes penitenciaulx.

_BOOKS PRINTED IN TYPE NO. 2._

6. Les quatre derrennieres choses.
7. The history of Jason.
8. The dictes and sayinges of the Philosophers. First Edition.
9. Horæ ad usum Sarum.
10. Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. First Edition.
11. The moral prouerbes of Chrystine.
12. Propositio Johannis Russell.
13. Stans puer ad mensam. First Edition.
14. Parvus Catho. First Edition.
15. Parvus Catho. Second Edition.
16. The Horse, the Shepe, and the Ghoos. First Edition.
17. The Horse, the Shepe, and the Ghoos. Second Edition.
18. Infancia Saluatoris.
19. The Temple of Glass.
20. The Chorle and the Bird. First Edition.
21. The Chorle and the Bird. Second Edition.
22. The Temple of Brass, or the Parlement of Fowls.
23. The Book of Curtesye. First Edition.
24. Queen Anelida.
25. Boecius de consolacione.
26. Cordyale; or the Four Last Things.
27. Fratris Laur. Guil. de Saona Margarita.
28. The dictes and sayinges of the Philosophers. Second Edition.
29. Indulgence from Pope Sixtus IV.
30. Parvus et Magnus Catho. Third Edition.
31. The Mirrour of the World. First Edition.
32. Reynard the Fox. First Edition.
33. Tully of olde age.
34. The game and playe of the chesse. Second Edition.

_BOOKS PRINTED IN TYPE NO. 3._

35. An Advertisement.
36. Directorium Sacerdotum. First Version.
37. Horæ ad usum Sarum. Second Edition.
38. Psalterium.

_BOOKS PRINTED IN TYPE NO. 4 AND 4*._

39. The Chronicles of England. First Edition.
40. The description of Britain.
41. Curia Sapientiæ.
42. Godfrey of Boloyne.
43. Indulgence from Sixtus IV. Second Edition.
44. Indulgence from Sixtus IV. Third Edition.
45. The Chronicles of England. Second Edition.
46. Polychronicon.
47. Pylgremage of the Sowle.
48. A Vocabulary.
49. The Festial. First Edition.
50. Four Sermons. First Edition.
51. Servitium de Visitatione beatæ V. Mariæ.
52. Sex Epistolæ.
53. Confessio Amantis.
54. The Knight of the Tower.
55. Caton.
56. The Golden Legende. First Edition.
57. Death-bed Prayers.
58. Æsop.
59. The Ordre of Chivalrye.
60. Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. Second Edition.
61. The Book of Fame.
62. The Curial.
63. Troilus and Creside.
64. The lyf of oure Ladye.
65. The lyf of Saynte Wenefrede.
66. Kyng Arthur.
67. Charles the Great.
68. Paris and Vienne.
69. The Golden Legende. Second Edition.

_BOOKS PRINTED IN TYPE NO. 5._

70. The booke of good maners.
71. Speculum Vite Christi. First Edition.
72. Directorium Sacerdotum. Second Version, First Edition.
73. Horæ ad usum Sarum. Third Edition.
74. The Royal Book.
75. Image of Pity.
76. The doctrynal of Sapyence.
77. Speculum Vite Christi. Second Edition.
78. Commemoratio lamentationis B. V. M.
79. Servitium de Transfiguratione.
80. Horæ ad usum Sarum. Fourth Edition.

_BOOKS PRINTED IN TYPE NO. 6._

81. Fayttes of Arms.
82. Statutes of England.
83. The gouernayle of Helthe.
84. Reynard the Fox. Second Edition.
85. Blanchardyn and Eglantyne.
86. The four Sons of Aymon.
87. Directorium Sacerdotum. Second Version, first Edition.
88. Eneydos.
89. The dictes and sayinges of the philosophers. Third Edition.
90. The Mirrour of the Worlde. Second Edition.
91. Divers Ghostly Matters.
92. The Fifteen Oes.
93. The Arte and Crafte to know well to dye.
94. The Book of Curtesye. Second Edition.
95. The Festial. Second Edition.
96. Four Sermons. Second Edition.
97. Ars moriendi.
98. The chastysing of goddes chyldern.
99. The treatise of Loue.

_POSTHUMOUS AND DOUBTFUL WORKS._

100. The life of St. Katheryne. 101. The Golden Legende. Third Edition. 102. The Siege of Rhodes. 103. Missale ad usum Sarum. 104. Bartholomeus de proprietatibus rerum. 105. Metamorphoses of Ovid. 106. The life and miracles of Robert Earl of Oxford. 107. A ballad.

The comparative rarity of books printed by Caxton.

INDEX.