Author additional ss: Caxton, William, approximately 1422–1491 or 1492. / Language: English

1. The history of Reynard the Fox : his friends and his enemies, his crimes, hairbreadth, escapes, and final triumph : a metrical version of the old English translation / with glossarial notes in verse by F.S. Ellis ; devices by Walter Crane.

Date:: 1897
Physical Description:: xi, [1], 289, [1] p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules D. Prown, MAH 1971

2. The noble & joyous boke entytled Le Morte Darthur : notwythstondyng it treateth of the byrth lyf & actes of the sayd Kynge Arthur: of his noble knyghtes of the Rounde Table : theyr merveyllous enquestes & adventures, thachyevynge of the sanc-greall and in the ende the dolourous deth: and departynge out of this worlde of them al. : which boke was reduced in to Englysshe / by the well dysposyd knyghte Syr Thomas Malory.

Creator:: Malory, Thomas, Sir, active 15th century
Date:: 1934
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Caxton's advertisement. Photolithograph of the copy preserved in the Bodleian library, Oxford, being one of the only two copies known. Issued with an introductory note by Edward W.B. Nicholson, M.A., Bodley's librarian.

Creator:: Nicholson, Edward Williams Byron, 1849–1912
Date:: [1892]
Physical Description:: 7 p. facsim. 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Ars moriendi / printed by William Caxton.

Date:: 1869
Physical Description:: [20] p. : facsims. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The history of Godefrey of Boloyne and of the conquest of Iherusalem / [corrected for the press by H. Halliday Sparling].

Creator:: William, of Tyre, Archbishop of Tyre, approximately 1130–approximately 1190
Date:: 1893]
Physical Description:: xxii, [2], 450, [2] p. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. The metamorphoses of Ovid / translated by William Caxton, 1480.

Creator:: Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D
Date:: 1968
Physical Description:: 2 v. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. The golden legend.

Creator:: Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229–1298
Date:: 1878
Physical Description:: 51 p., [62] leaves ; 40 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. [Here begynneth the legende named in latyn Legenda aurea, that is to saye in Englysse the golden legende].

Creator:: Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229–1298
Date:: 16 Feb. 1503 [i.e. 1504]
Physical Description:: 296 leaves : ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Here endeth the book named the dictes or sayengis of the philosophhres ...

Date:: [not after 18 November 1477]
Physical Description:: [78] leaves ; 29 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. The statutes of Henry VII in exact facsimile : from the very rare original, printed by Caxton in 1489 / edited, with notes and introduction, by John Rae.

Creator:: Great Britain
Date:: 1869
Physical Description:: xxi, [80], 32 p. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. The recuyell of the historyes of Troye.

Creator:: Lefèvre, Raoul, fl. 1460
Date:: 1892]
Physical Description:: 2 v. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. [T]o the right noble, right excellent prince George duc of Clarence ...

Creator:: Jacobus, de Cessolis, active 1288–1322
Date:: 31 Mar. 1474
Physical Description:: [144] p. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Ars moriendi/that is to saye the craft for to deye for the helthe of mannes sowle. Photolithograph of the unique and perfect copy, printed about 1491 by William Caxton or Wynken de Worde, preserved in the Bodleian library, Oxford. Issued, with an introductory note, by Edward W. B. Nicholson ...

Date:: [1891]
Physical Description:: 7, [16] p. 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Here begynneth the boke intituled Eracles, and also of Godefrey of Boloyne, the whiche speketh of the conquest of the holy londe of Jherusalem ...

Creator:: William, of Tyre, Archbishop of Tyre, approximately 1130–approximately 1190
Date:: 20 Nov. 1481
Physical Description:: [144] leaves ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. The dictes and sayings of the philosophers : a facsimile reproduction of the first book printed in England by William Caxton, in 1477.

Creator:: Mubashshir ibn Fātik, Abū al-Wafāʼ, 11th cent
Date:: 1877
Physical Description:: xii, [150] p. : facsims. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. The holy apostle and doctour of the peple saynt Poule sayth in his epystle.

Creator:: Jacobus, de Cessolis, active 1288–1322
Date:: [1483]
Physical Description:: [165] p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. The history of Reynard the Foxe / by William Caxton.

Date:: 1892]
Physical Description:: v, [1], 162, [1] p. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. [The legende named in latyn Legenda aurea that is to say in englysshe the golden legende].

Creator:: Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229–1298
Date:: 15 Feb. 1512
Physical Description:: 406 leaves : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. That this is writen in this lytel boke ought the prestes to lerne and teche to theyr parysshes : and also it is necessary for symple prestes that understode not the scriptures : and it is made for symple peple and put into englisshe ...

Creator:: Roye, Guy de, Abp., ca. 1345–1409
Date:: 7 May 1489
Physical Description:: [184] p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. Policronicon.

Creator:: Higden, Ranulf, -1364
Date:: ended the thyrtenth daye of Apryll the tenth yere of the regne of kyng Harry the seuenth. And of the incarnacyon of our lord: MCCCC lxxxxv [13 April 1495]
Physical Description:: [50], CCCxxxvi, CCCxxxvi-CCCxlvi, [1] leaves : illustrations, music ; 28 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. Le morte Darthur / by Syr Thomas Malory ; the original edition of William Caxton now reprinted and edited with an introduction and glossary by H. Oskar Sommer ; with an essay on Malory's prose style by Andrew Lang.

Creator:: Malory, Thomas, Sir, active 15th century
Date:: 1889-1891
Physical Description:: 3 v. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

22. Ovyde, hys booke of Metamorphose, books X-XV, translated by William Caxton; newly printed from the manuscript in the Pepysian library at Magdalene college, Cambridge.

Creator:: Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D
Date:: 1924
Physical Description:: 4 p. ?., xiij-xl, 189 p., 1 ?. 31 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

23. 500 years of British printing, Caxton 1476-1976 : an exhibition in the Reference Library, Language and Literature Department [Birmingham Public Libraries], 30 September-30 October 1976.

Creator:: Birmingham Reference Library. Language and Literature Dept
Date:: [1976]
Physical Description:: [1], 17 [i.e. 21] p. : facsims. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

24. The recuyell of the historyes of Troy, written in French by Raoul Lefèvre, tr. and printed by William Caxton (about A.D. 1474) The first English printed book, now faithfully reproduced with a critical introduction, index and glossary, and eight pages in photographic facsimile, by H. Oskar Sommer.

Creator:: Lefèvre, Raoul, fl. 1460
Date:: 1894
Physical Description:: 2 v. facsims., fold. tab. 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

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1. The history of Reynard the Fox : his friends and his enemies, his crimes, hairbreadth, escapes, and final triumph : a metrical version of the old English translation / with glossarial notes in verse by F.S. Ellis ; devices by Walter Crane.

3. Caxton's advertisement. Photolithograph of the copy preserved in the Bodleian library, Oxford, being one of the only two copies known. Issued with an introductory note by Edward W.B. Nicholson, M.A., Bodley's librarian.

4. Ars moriendi / printed by William Caxton.

5. The history of Godefrey of Boloyne and of the conquest of Iherusalem / [corrected for the press by H. Halliday Sparling].

6. The metamorphoses of Ovid / translated by William Caxton, 1480.

7. The golden legend.

8. [Here begynneth the legende named in latyn Legenda aurea, that is to saye in Englysse the golden legende].

9. Here endeth the book named the dictes or sayengis of the philosophhres ...

10. The statutes of Henry VII in exact facsimile : from the very rare original, printed by Caxton in 1489 / edited, with notes and introduction, by John Rae.

11. The recuyell of the historyes of Troye.

12. [T]o the right noble, right excellent prince George duc of Clarence ...

13. Ars moriendi/that is to saye the craft for to deye for the helthe of mannes sowle. Photolithograph of the unique and perfect copy, printed about 1491 by William Caxton or Wynken de Worde, preserved in the Bodleian library, Oxford. Issued, with an introductory note, by Edward W. B. Nicholson ...

14. Here begynneth the boke intituled Eracles, and also of Godefrey of Boloyne, the whiche speketh of the conquest of the holy londe of Jherusalem ...

15. The dictes and sayings of the philosophers : a facsimile reproduction of the first book printed in England by William Caxton, in 1477.

16. The holy apostle and doctour of the peple saynt Poule sayth in his epystle.

17. The history of Reynard the Foxe / by William Caxton.

18. [The legende named in latyn Legenda aurea that is to say in englysshe the golden legende].

19. That this is writen in this lytel boke ought the prestes to lerne and teche to theyr parysshes : and also it is necessary for symple prestes that understode not the scriptures : and it is made for symple peple and put into englisshe ...

20. Policronicon.

21. Le morte Darthur / by Syr Thomas Malory ; the original edition of William Caxton now reprinted and edited with an introduction and glossary by H. Oskar Sommer ; with an essay on Malory's prose style by Andrew Lang.

22. Ovyde, hys booke of Metamorphose, books X-XV, translated by William Caxton; newly printed from the manuscript in the Pepysian library at Magdalene college, Cambridge.

23. 500 years of British printing, Caxton 1476-1976 : an exhibition in the Reference Library, Language and Literature Department [Birmingham Public Libraries], 30 September-30 October 1976.