This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ... the English Mss. whose influence he declares to be nil. The text of Ms. A. will speak for itself when compared with Caxton, and we shall show later how many things not found in V. (or S.) Caxton added. It would be out of our province to discuss the mere bibliographical points in connection with Caxton's ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ... the English Mss. whose influence he declares to be nil. The text of Ms. A. will speak for itself when compared with Caxton, and we shall show later how many things not found in V. (or S.) Caxton added. It would be out of our province to discuss the mere bibliographical points in connection with Caxton's Golden Legende, for which I refer to Blades and Aspland. The first edition of the Golden Legende was a tremendous undertaking for Caxton. Blades says (n, Lix): "The'magnum opus'of Caxton was undoubtedly the edition of ' The Golden Legend, ' 1483. The translation alone of this great work must have been no slight task, while, as to number of leaves (449), and size both of paper and printed page, it far exceeded his edition of 'King Arthur/ which was the next largest" (for the size of the paper, see ib., p. Xvh). (n, p. 151) "Woodcuts are used throughout, apparently from the hand of the same Artist who engraved the cuts for the 2nd edition of the ' Chess-Book'.... (ib. Lvi). The largest woodcut known to have been used in Caxton's books is the Assembly of Saints, at the beginning of all the editions of the' Golden Legend'" (this cut is given by Blades, and by Aspland). 1 Ae if C. had used both Belet and Vignay; italics mine. Alteng. Leg., if. J% CZZXTI f. Nothing could give a better idea of Caxton's own appreciation of the difficulties of his task than a quotation of his own words. In his second prologue he gives us this charmingly quaint history of his work, and gratefully tells how his Chesterfield did not desert him in his hour of need (Blades, I, p. 167): " J.Nd for as moche as this sayd werke was grete & over chargeable to me taccomplisshe I feryd me in the begynnyng of the translacyon to have contynued it/by cause of the longe tyme of the...
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