Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Caxton The Description of Britain A Modern Rendering by William Caxton Caxton: The Description of Britain: A Modern Rendering by William Caxton. Our systems have detected unusual traffic activity from your network. Please complete this reCAPTCHA to demonstrate that it's you making the requests and not a robot. If you are having trouble seeing or completing this challenge, this page may help. If you continue to experience issues, you can contact JSTOR support. Block Reference: #dc4e2730-ce35-11eb-aa98-dfc37eb9279a VID: #(null) IP: 116.202.236.252 Date and time: Wed, 16 Jun 2021 00:00:28 GMT. William Caxton (c.1422 - 1492) Caxton was born in around 1422 in Kent. He went to London at the age of 16 to become an apprentice to a merchant, later moving to Bruges, the centre of the wool trade, where he became a successful and important member of the merchant community. From 1462 to 1470 he served as governor of the 'English Nation of Merchant Adventurers', which allowed him to represent his fellow merchants, as well as act as a diplomat for the king. Caxton affiliated himself with the household of Margaret, the duchess of Burgundy, sister of the English king Edward IV. She became one of his most important patrons and encouraged him with his translation of 'The Recuyell of the Histories of Troye' from French to English. In the early 1470s Caxton spent time in Cologne learning the art of printing. He returned to Bruges in 1472 where he and Colard Mansion, a Flemish calligrapher, set up a press. Caxton's own translation of 'The Recuyell of the Histories of Troye' was the first book printed in the English language. In 1476 Caxton returned to London and established a press at Westminster, the first printing press in England. Amongst the books he printed were Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales', Gower's 'Confession Amantis' and Malory's 'Le Morte d'Arthur'. He printed more than 100 books in his lifetime, books which were known for their craftsmanship and careful editing. He was also the translator of many of the books he published, using his knowledge of French, Latin and Dutch. He died in 1492. William Caxton. Our editors will review what you’ve submitted and determine whether to revise the article. William Caxton , (born c. 1422, Kent, England—died 1491, London), the first English printer, who, as a translator and publisher, exerted an important influence on English literature. In 1438 he was apprenticed to Robert Large, a rich mercer, who in the following year became lord mayor of London. Large died in 1441, and Caxton moved to Brugge, the centre of the European wool trade; during the next 30 years he became an increasingly prosperous and influential member of the English trading community in Flanders and Holland. In 1463 he took up duties as “Governor of the English Nation of Merchant Adventurers” in the Low Countries—a post of real authority over his fellow merchants. Sometime in 1470 he ceased to be governor and entered the service of Margaret, duchess of Burgundy, possibly as her financial adviser. In that period Caxton’s interests were turning to literature. In March 1469 he had begun to translate Raoul Le Fèvre’s Recueil des histoires de Troye , which he laid aside and did not finish until September 19, 1471. In Cologne, where he lived from 1470 to the end of 1472, he learned printing. In the epilogue of Book III of the completed translation, entitled The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye , he tells how his “pen became worn, his hand weary, his eye dimmed” with copying the book; so he “practised and learnt” at great personal cost how to print it. He set up a press in Brugge about 1474, and the Recuyell , the first book printed in English, was published there in 1475. Caxton’s translation from the French of The Game and Playe of the Chesse (in which chess is treated as an allegory of life) was published in 1476. Caxton printed two or three other works in Brugge in French, but toward the end of 1476 he returned to England and established his press at Westminster. From then on he devoted himself to writing and printing. The first dated book printed in English, Dictes and Sayenges of the Phylosophers , appeared on November 18, 1477. Although a pioneer of printing in England, Caxton showed no great typographical originality and produced no books of remarkable beauty. Kings, nobles, and rich merchants were Caxton’s patrons and sometimes commissioned special books. His varied output—including books of chivalric romance, conduct, morality, history, and philosophy and an encyclopaedia, The Myrrour of the Worlde (1481), the first illustrated English book— shows that he catered also to a general public. The large number of service books and devotional works published by Caxton were the staple reading of most literate persons. He also printed nearly all the English literature available to him in his time: The Canterbury Tales (1478? and 1484?) and other poems by Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower’s Confessio amantis (1483), Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte Darthur (1485), and much of John Lydgate. Caxton translated 24 books, some of them immensely long. By the time of his death, he had published about 100 items of various kinds. Your IP Address in Germany is Blocked from www.gutenberg.org. We apologize for this inconvenience. Your IP address has been automatically blocked from accessing the Project Gutenberg website, www.gutenberg.org. This is because the geoIP database shows your address is in the country of Germany. 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William Caxton (Marie Collins) Published by Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd, London (1988) From: Wadard Books PBFA (Farningham, KENT, United Kingdom) About this Item: Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. William Caxton who brought the printing industry to England was also an astute publisher. He made The Description of Britain available in 1480 by extracting the sections on Britain from a 14th century Middle English translation of the Latin Polychronicon and made it a best seller. His text has now been modernised and gloriously illustrated using woodcuts, engravings and illuminations from the period together with recent photographs and aerial views of contemporary Britain. Fascinating particularly the maps. 176 pages, colour and b/w. Size: 270x200mm. Seller Inventory # 7676. Caxton, the Description of Britain : a Modern Rendering / by Marie Collins ; Picture Research by Deborah Pownall. Collins, Marie. Published by New York : Weidenfeld & Nicolson (1988) From: MW Books Ltd (New York, NY, U.S.A.) About this Item: First American Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 176 pages; Description: 176 p. : ill. (some col. ) ; 28 cm. Subjects: Great Britain--Description and travel. 2 Kg. Seller Inventory # 58386. Caxton, the Description of Britain : a Modern Rendering / by Marie Collins ; Picture Research by Deborah Pownall. Collins, Marie. Published by New York : Weidenfeld & Nicolson (1988) From: MW Books Ltd. (Galway, Ireland) About this Item: First American Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 176 pages; Description: 176 p. : ill. (some col. ) ; 28 cm. Subjects: Great Britain--Description and travel. 2 Kg. Seller Inventory # 58386. CAXTON: THE DESCRIPTION OF BRITAIN, A MODERN RENDERING BY MARIE COLLINS. Caxton, William; (modern rendering by Marie Collins) Published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson (1988) 1st Amer, New York (1988) About this Item: HC. B&W and color ill. (illustrator). 176pp ISBN 155584300X William Caxton made The Description of Britain available to the British public in 1480, basing his version on a fourteenth-century Middle English translation of the Latin Polychronicon. Now his text has been modernized and the result is a fascinating insight into Britain in the Middle Ages and a vivid account of Britain's history from the perspective of the later Middle Ages. very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover). Seller Inventory # 014258. Caxton: The Description of Britain, a Modern Rendering by Marie Collins. Collins, Marie. Published by Weidenfeld and Nicholson (1988) From: BookDepart (Shepherdstown, WV, U.S.A.) About this Item: Hardcover. Condition: UsedVeryGood. Hardcover; light fading, light shelf wear to exterior; otherwise in very good condition with clean text and tight binding. Dust jacket shows scuffing and edge wear. Seller Inventory # 84253.