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The Game and Playe of the Chesse is a book by William Caxton, the first English printer. Published in 1476, it is one of the earliest titles published in English, [1] the first being Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye, also by Caxton. It was based on a book by Jacobus de Cessolis. [2]
Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye or Recueil des Histoires de Troye (1464) is a translation by William Caxton of a French courtly romance written by Raoul Lefèvre, chaplain to Philip III, Duke of Burgundy. It was the first book printed in the English language. Recuyell (recueil in Modern French) simply means "collection" in English. Hence ...
Printer's mark of William Caxton, 1478. A variant of the merchant's mark. William Caxton (c. 1422 – c. 1491) was an English merchant, diplomat and writer.He is thought to be the first person to introduce a printing press into England in 1476, and as a printer to be the first English retailer of printed books.
In 1450 Stephen Scrope produced a Middle English translation, titled Dicts and Sayings of the Philosophers. [3] At least three additional Middle English versions are extant; the Helmingham Hall MS (anonymous), William of Worcester's (reliant on Scrope's), and Anthony Woodville, Earl Rivers's translation (printed by William Caxton). [4]
Raoul Lefèvre was the 15th-century French author of a Histoire de Jason (in 1460) [1] and the Recoeil des histoires de Troyes (in 1464). [2] Both books were translated and printed by William Caxton , and the latter, as Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye , was the first book printed in English in 1473-1474.
A catalogue of books printed by (or ascribed to the press of) William Caxton, in which is included the pressmark of every copy contained in the library of the British Museum Date 1865
Anthony Woodville (kneeling, second from left, wearing a tabard displaying his armorials) and William Caxton (dressed in black) presenting the first printed book in English (Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers) to King Edward IV and Woodville's sister Queen Elizabeth. Lambeth Palace Library, London.
1480. 1 August – Treaty of Perpetual Friendship between England and Burgundy. [2]Magdalen College School, Oxford, established by William Waynflete. [3] [4]1481. William Caxton publishes The Historie of Reynart the Foxe, the first English edition of the tale, [2] and also his 1480 translation of Mirrour of the Worlde, the first book printed in England to include woodcut illustrations.