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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

PLATE PAGE

BINDING WITH CAXTON'S DIES _Frontispiece_

[From the cover of a book in the library of
Corpus Christi College, Oxford.]

I. PROLOGUE FROM THE BARTHOLOMAEUS 22

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.)

II. THE RECUYELL OF THE HISTORYES OF TROYE 28

Printed in Caxton's Type 1. Leaf 253,
the first of the third book.

[From the copy in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.]

III. EPILOGUE TO BOETHIUS 36

Printed in Caxton's Type 3.

[From the copy in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.]

IV. THE DICTES OR SAYENGIS OF THE PHILOSOPHRES 38

Printed in Caxton's Type 2.

[From the copy in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.]

V. CAXTON'S ADVERTISEMENT 42

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.]

VI. THE MIRROUR OF THE WORLD 50

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.]

VII. THE MIRROUR OF THE WORLD 50

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.]

VIII. THE GAME AND PLAYE OF THE CHESSE 52

Printed in Caxton's Type 2*. The wood-cut represents
the philosopher who invented the game.

[From the copy in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.]

IX. LIBER FESTIVALIS 56

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.]

X. CHAUCER'S CANTERBURY TALES 58

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.]

XI. THE FABLES OF ESOPE 60

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.]

XII. THE FABLES OF ESOPE 60

The wood-cut here shewn is engraved in an entirely
different manner from the rest.

[From the copy in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.]

XIII. THE FABLES OF ESOPE 62

Shewing the only ornamental initial letter
used by Caxton.

[From the copy in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.]

XIV. THE IMAGE OF PITY 66

[From the unique wood-cut in the British Museum.]

XV. SPECULUM VITÆ CHRISTI 66

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.]

XVI. CAXTON'S DEVICE 70

[From an example in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.]

XVII. LEGENDA AD USUM SARUM 70

Printed at Paris by W. Maynyal, probably for Caxton.
The book is known only from fragments.

[From a leaf in the University Library, Cambridge.]

XVIII. THE INDULGENCE OF 1489 72

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.]

XIX. THE BOKE OF ENEYDOS 76

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.]

XX. ARS MORIENDI 76

Printed in Caxton's Type 6 [text] and 8 [heading].

[From the unique copy in the Bodleian Library,
Oxford.]

XXI. SERVITIUM DE TRANSFIGURATIONE JESU CHRISTI 78

Printed in Caxton's Type 5.

[From the unique copy in the British Museum.]

XXII. THE CRUCIFIXION 78

Used by Caxton in the Fifteen Oes, and frequently
afterwards by Wynkyn de Worde.

[From an example in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.]

XXIII. THE LYF OF SAINT KATHERIN 80

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.]

XXIV. AND XXV. THE METAMORPHOSES OF OVID 82

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.]