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Wtyt Kitoersi&e ilitcrature Series THE BOOK OF MERLIN THE BOOK OF SIR BALIN FROM MALORY'S KING ARTHUR WITH CAXTON'S PREFACE EDITED, WITH AN INTRODUCTORY SKETCH AND GLOSSARY BY CLARENCE GRIFFIN CHILD ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH IN THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY Boston : 4 Park Street ; New York : 85 Fifth Avenue Chicago : 378-388 Wabash Avenue CONTENTS PAGE Introductory Sketch . iii Caxton's Preface xviii The Book of Merlin 1 The Book of Sir Balin 53 Glossary 85 LIBRaKY »f CONGRESS Two Cepies Received MAR 9 1904 ^ Copyright Entry >+- c? -&Lr . 1. ") - I <\ CLASS «- XX©, No Ft? - 1. n COPY 8 Copyright, 1904, By HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO. All rights reserved. The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A. Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Company. 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INTRODUCTORY SKETCH In the year 1476, William Caxton returned to Eng- land, bringing with him his type and presses, and set up, at the Red Pale in Westminster, the first English press. Born in Kent, provided with a good educa- tion, and apprenticed to the Mercers' Company, he had gone abroad, when about twenty years of age, to Bruges. There, in the City of the Bells, he became a merchant, and ultimately Governor of the English "Nation," or colony of merchants and traders. His bookish tastes led him to begin a translation of the "Recueil des Histories de Troye," and this, in turn, to an interest in the new art of printing, and to a study of it at Bruges and Cologne, which brought him back at last, after thirty years, to become the first English printer, and to win for himself a great name, not only through the craft he followed with such in- dustry and devotion, but also through his diligence and skill as a translator.