Caxton william 1422 1492 (13 risultati)

Second printing (first published 1975). 29, [6] pages. Staple-bound booklet: H 20.5cm x L 14.25cm. Light green paper covers with light toning and foxing, some green ink smudging to rear cover. Light foxing to edges and to rear blank page opposite rear cover; a few minor spots of foxing to interior pages which are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. A very good- copy. Published as a brief accompanying catalog for an exhibition held at Oxford University's Bodleian Library ISBN 0900177586.…

First edition INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE EDITOR. xxviii, 202 pages. Hardcover: H 23.25cm x L 15.75cm. White dust jacket soiled and foxed, small stray ink mark underneath title on front panel. Light blue cloth. Light foxing to edges and endpapers. Slight cigarette pungency to book. Interior pages are clean. Binding is firm. A very good+ copy in a very good- dust jacket with the editor's three-line ink inscription at the top of the front free endpaper: "For Joe Milosh | - with regards | Beverly." With frontispiece, Preface, Notes, and Selected Bibliography with text comprised of "The Parliament of Fowls," "Anelida and Arcite," and "Boece (Boecius de consolacione philosophie).".…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 176 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm ; ISBN: 155584300X; 9781555843007; LCCN: 88-10743 ; LC: DA610; Dewey: 942 ; OCLC: 17872297 ; Based on Caxton's version of a 14th century Middle Eastern translation of the Latin Polychronicon of Ranulf Higden, which was printed in 1948 by Wynkyn de Worde under title: The description of England ; Contents : Historical introduction -- Further reading -- Editor's introduction -- Preface and table of contents -- The names of Britain -- Britain's location, boundaries and dimensions -- Britain's excellence and attributes -- Britain's marvels and wonders -- The principle divisions of Britain -- The adjacent islands -- The king's higways and streets -- Famous rivers and streams -- Ancient cities and towns -- Provinces and shires -- Laws and their names -- Britain's kingdoms and their boundaries and limits -- Bishoprics and sees -- The number and kinds of people who have inhabited Britain -- The languages, manners and customs of the inhabitants of Britain -- Wales -- Why it is called Wales -- The attributes of Wales -- The customs and rituals of the Welsh -- The marvels and wonders of Wales -- Scotland -- Ireland --The boundaries of Ireland -- Ireland's greatness and qualities -- Ireland's deficiencies -- The first inhabitants of Ireland -- The nature and ways of the Irish -- The marvels and wondesr of Ireland -- The miracles of Irish Saints -- Epilogue ; bookkplate, else FINE/FINE. Book.…

Reprint. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: clxiii, 115 pages frontispiece, plates, facsimile 22 cm. Contents: Biographical introduction -- The recuyell of the historyes of Troye = Le recueil des histoires de Troyes -- The game and playe of the chesse--first edition, second edition / Jean de Vignay -- The dictes or sayengs of the philosopheres--first, second, and third editions -- Moral prouerbes -- The historie of Jason -- The consolacion of philosophie -- Cordyale -- Descripcion of Britayne -- Tullius of olde age -- Tullius of friendship -- The declamacion of noblesse -- Godefroy of Bologne -- The mirrour of the world = L'ymage du monde--first and second editions -- Reynart the foxe--first and second editions -- Polycronicon -- The book of fame -- The golden legende = Legenda aurea -- Caton -- The order of chyualry = L'ordre de cheuallerie -- Lyf of our lady -- The book of the knyght of the towre -- The fables of Esope -- Curial -- Canterbury tales -- Kyng Arthur -- Charles the Grete -- The book of good maners -- The royal book -- The fayttes of armes -- Blanchardyn and Eglantine -- The four sonnes of Aymon -- Eneydos -- The fifteen oes -- Earl Rivers' prologue. Subjects: Caxton, William approximately 1422-1491 or 1492. Prologues and epilogues. Printers 14th-15th century England. 1 Kg. …

Reprint. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: clxiii, 115 pages frontispiece, plates, facsimile 22 cm. Contents: Biographical introduction -- The recuyell of the historyes of Troye = Le recueil des histoires de Troyes -- The game and playe of the chesse--first edition, second edition / Jean de Vignay -- The dictes or sayengs of the philosopheres--first, second, and third editions -- Moral prouerbes -- The historie of Jason -- The consolacion of philosophie -- Cordyale -- Descripcion of Britayne -- Tullius of olde age -- Tullius of friendship -- The declamacion of noblesse -- Godefroy of Bologne -- The mirrour of the world = L'ymage du monde--first and second editions -- Reynart the foxe--first and second editions -- Polycronicon -- The book of fame -- The golden legende = Legenda aurea -- Caton -- The order of chyualry = L'ordre de cheuallerie -- Lyf of our lady -- The book of the knyght of the towre -- The fables of Esope -- Curial -- Canterbury tales -- Kyng Arthur -- Charles the Grete -- The book of good maners -- The royal book -- The fayttes of armes -- Blanchardyn and Eglantine -- The four sonnes of Aymon -- Eneydos -- The fifteen oes -- Earl Rivers' prologue. Subjects: Caxton, William approximately 1422-1491 or 1492. Prologues and epilogues. Printers 14th-15th century England. 1 Kg. …

First Edition. Near fine set in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges very slightly dust-dulled and toned. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Series; Bibliotheca curiosa. Physical description; 2 vols. ; 18 cm. Subjects; Reynard the Fox [Legendary character] Poetry. Genre; Bibliography. Genre; Bibliography. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Near fine set in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges very slightly dust-dulled and toned. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Series; Bibliotheca curiosa. Physical description; 2 vols. ; 18 cm. Subjects; Reynard the Fox [Legendary character] Poetry. Genre; Bibliography. Genre; Bibliography. 1 Kg.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. 2 volumes bound as 1 ; 23 cm.; OCLC 1507226 ; LC PR1119 .E5 no. 44-45 ; LCCN 12017832 ; red half-leather with five bands, marbled endpapers ; top edge gilt; contemporary bookplate of The Newberry Library, Chicago ; front and back boards loose, repaired ; "Caxton's " right pleasant and goodly historie of the Four Sons of Aymon " is englisht from the French prose romance " Les Quatre Filz Aymon , " which is a rendering more or less free of an ancient chanson de geste bearing the same name , though more often entitled " Renaud de Montauban . " The earliest extant text of the chanson is a remaniment of the end of the 12th century. The conversion of the poem into prose was not accomplished before the close of the 14th century . None of the prose manuscripts are earlier than the 15th century . Of them the British Museum has three MSS . , all in writing of the 15th century . In one , a large vellum folio , about 1445 A.D. , the story is illustrated by nine miniatures ; in the borders of the first appear the arms of John Talbot , first Earl of Shrewsbury , and those of Henry VI . and his Queen Margaret of Anjou empaled . It is similar to the usual printed edition , from the third chapter of that edition to the end . Another manuscript , a vellum folio of the 15th century , is also a prose version , to which is prefixed a fragment of a metrical version of the story , the text of which closely resembles that published by Bekker in his Introduction to " Fierbras " ; another metrical fragment is added at the conclusion of the prose tale , which contains the adventures of Maugis , how he became Pope under the name of Innocent , hears Charlemagne's confession , and is stifled by the Emperor in a cave near Naples . " ; FAIR. Book. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. FIRST EDITION. Bound in brown crushed morocco by Riviere and son, spine lettered in gilt, gilt edges. With 18 leaves in facsimile. Partly foliated in a contemporary hand (one tiny hole in penultimate leaf, washed and pressed, occasional small stain) Provenance: Henry Baker (contemporary signature on most lower margins) - "Richard" (contemporary inscription on giii) - Sir Joseph Whatley, KCH (1765-?1844; armorial bookplate and manuscript notes) - Bertram, 4th Earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878; his sale, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 30 June 1897, lot 976; sold by Pickering to:) - Richard Bennett (1844-1900; pencil note) - [Phyllis Goodhart Gordan; by descent]. First edition, printed by England's first printer, William Caxton, of his own translation of Cato's Distichs, a popular 3rd c. collection of ethical proverbs and maxims intended to instill rules of honest living in accordance with good morals at all levels of society. The book features Caxton's remarkable prologue condemning the state of affairs in London, where "no one intends the common good, but only each man his own private profit." Caxton had printed three previous editions of an English verse translation (by Benedict Burgh) of the Distichs, but for the present edition, referred to as Cato IV, Caxton translated the work himself from a Latin original with a French prose version and commentary. Little is known of William Caxton's early life; the first record of him is in 1438 when he is listed as an apprentice in the Mercers' Company. He became involved in foreign trade, and by 1465 he was head of the English merchant fraternity in Bruges. He moved to Cologne in 1471 to acquire a press and learn the printing business. In Cologne, Caxton completed his translation of "History of Troy" before returning to Bruges, where he set up his press and printed "Troy", the first book printed in English. About 1476 Caxton returned to England and set up his press at Westminster Abbey at the sign of the Red Pale. Caxton began his translation of Cato's "Distichs" shortly after completing the "Golden Legend" in November 1483, and finished it on December 23. This book was probably printed in February 1484, between "Knight of the Tower" and "Aesop". "The last quire of this Cato IV contains the printed paragraph marks which were ordered for use in Aesop . . . so it seems that both these books were printed concurrently, and finished just at the moment when the new type material became available." (Painter, "Caxton: A Biography" 139) Caxton's Cato: The literature of edifying proverbs and "sententiae" enjoyed enormous success during the early Middle Ages. The "Distichs of Cato" were a particularly successful example of this genre, being read widely from the Carolingian period up to the 16th century. The book's misattributed to the great Roman statesman Cato the Elder (the book is now believed to be a late antique work by a Dionysius Cato) gave the book the weight of authority. From the 12th century onward, the readership broadened and it began to be used outside of the "collective" settings of the schools and universities, as edifying reading for private, personal contemplation. Caxton dedicated his translation to the City of London, writing "I William Caxton, citizen of London. owe of right my service and good will, and, of very duty, am bound naturally to assist, aid, and counsel [London and its citizens], as far forth as I can to my power, as to my mother, of whom I have received my nurture and living. And shall pray for the good prosperity and policy of the same during my life." Caxton believed that the moral and ethical instruction found in the book would be of great help to the citizens of London, a city in decline, where every man was concerned "with his singular profit" rather than the good of the "common weal". He considered the lessons of the Distichs especially important for children, calling it "the best book to be taught to young children in school." Caxton observed that by the time the well-born yout.…

Softcover. Condizione: New. Reprint. Language: English. Approximately 198 pages. English: Print-on-demand reprint. Original edition : 1527. Text in English. This work is a translation by William Caxton of a prose version of Image du monde. It covers various sciences including grammar, rhetoric, logic, geometry, and astronomy, along with practical knowledge on measurement and accounting. The book also includes musical theory and other useful and pleasant commodities. A valuable historical and scientific text from the early 16th century. Book images are non-contractual. This item is printed on demand and ships from our printing partners' facility nearest the destination. These facilities are located mainly in the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada. …

LeatheBound. Condizione: New. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1956 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 302 Language: English Volume no.176 1956 Pages: 302 Volume no.176 1956.…

LeatheBound. Condizione: New. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1956 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 300 Language: English Pages: 300.…

LeatheBound. Condizione: New. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1928 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 302 Language: enm Pages: 302.…