Author:William Caxton

William Caxton
(c. 1422 – c. 1492)

William Caxton

Works

• The morale prouerbes of Christyne (1477?) (as printer?)
• Chronicles of England (1480) (external scan)
• The Historye of Reynard the Foxe (1481)
• The Booke of the Pylgremage of the Sowle (1483?) (as printer?) IA
• Prologue to the Aeneids (1490)

Translations

• Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye (1473) by Raoul Lefèvre (external scan) Internet Archive identifier: TheRecuyellOfTheHistoryes1Internet Archive identifier: TheRecuyellOfTheHistoryes2
• The Game and Playe of the Chesse (1474) by Jean de Vignay (transcription project) (published in 1855 as The Game of the Chesse), from Jacobus de Cessolis's Moralisatio super ludum scaccorum
• The Histories of Iason (1477) by Raoul Lefèvre IA
• The Myrrour of the World or thymage of the same (1481) by Gautier de Metz IA or IA
• Dialogues in French and English (1483) IA
• The Book of the Knight of the Tower (1483) by Geoffroy de la Tour Landry
• The Golden Legende (1483) by Jacobus da Varagine
  • Everyman edition of 1900
  • Vol 1. IA
  • Vol 2. IA or IA
  • Vol 3. (transcription project)
  • Vol 4. IA or IA
  • Vol 5. IA or IA
  • Vol 6. IA or IA
  • Vol 7. IA or IA
• The Book of the Subtyl Historyes and Fables of Esope (1483) by Julien Macho (transcription project) (Vol 2. of The Fables of Aesop as first printed by William Caxton)
• Thystorye of the ryght noble Parys and of the fayr Vienne (1485) by Pierre de la Cépède
• The Lyf of the Noble and Crysten Prynce Charles the Grete (1485) IA
• The Ryal Book, or a book for a King (1486) by Laurent d'Orléans (external scan)
• The Boke of the fayt of armes and of Chyualrye (1489) by Christine de Pizan (external scan)
• The Right Plesaunt and Goodly Historie of the Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1489) IA
• Eneydos (1490) by Virgil IA
• Different translations of Ars moriendi (The Art of Dying):
  • The Book of the Craft of Dying (1490)
  • The Art and Craft to know well to die (Abridged) (1490)
  • The Craft for to die for the health of man's Soul (Abridged) (1491)
• The Book of the Ordre of Chyualry or Knyghthode (1490) by Ramon Llull

Works about Caxton

• "William Caxton" in Littell's Living Age, 134 (1726) (1877)
• "Caxton, William," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Caxton, William," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Caxton, William," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "William Caxton," in Catholic Encyclopedia, (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913)
• "William Caxton," in Men of Kent and Kentishmen (pp. 31−32), by John Hutchinson, Canterbury: Cross & Jackman (1892)