The first book printed in England is said to be Caxton's "Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers," printed by him at Westminster in 1477.
The first dated book produced by Caxton in England was The Dictes or Sayengis of the Philosophers, a translation by Earl Rivers (the brother of Edward IV's queen) from a French version of an anonymous Latin book of the fourteenth century.
For Dictes and Homer, as Greeks, say and write favourably for the Greeks, and give to them more worship than to the Trojans; and Dares writeth otherwise than they do.
And forasmuch as it is accordant that his dictes and sayings should be had as well as others', therefore I have set it in the end of this book.
So, these be the dictes and sayings of the philosopher Socrates, which he wrote in his book; and certainly he wrote no worse than afore is rehearsed.
Here endeth the book named The Dictes or Sayings of the Philosophers, imprinted by me, William Caxton, at Westminster, the year of our Lord 1477.
And I find nothing discordant therein, save only in the dictes and sayings of Socrates, wherein I find that my said Lord hath left out certain and divers conclusions touching women.
For if he had made fault in writing of women, he ought not, ne should not, be believed in his other dictes and sayings.
The first issue from his press was the "Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers," which bears the date 1477.
In 1477, he issued the first book known to have been printed in England, "The Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers.
For Dictes and Homer, as Greeks, say and write favorably for the Greeks, and give to them more worship than to the Trojans; and Dares writeth otherwise than they do.
Publication of the first book printed in England, Caxton's Dictes or Sayengis of the Philosophers.
The first book with an unmistakable imprint was his Dictes and Sayings of Philosophers, which had been translated for him by the gallant but unfortunate Lord Rivers, who was murdered in Pomfret castle by order of Richard III.
For touchyng the filiall, he par dessus toutes les dessus dictes amours.
Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers" for his nephew, the Prince of Wales, and introduced Caxton, when it was printed, to present it to the king and royal family.
Part of Caxton's Epilogue to the 'Dictes and Sayinges of the Philosophers.
The Dictes and Sayinges is printed throughout in black ink, in long lines, twenty-nine to a page, with space left at the beginning of the chapters for the insertion of initial letters.
Caxton followed The Dictes and Sayinges with an edition of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, a folio of 372 leaves.
In 1477 Caxton produced The Dictes or Sayengis of the Philosophres, the first book, so far as is known, ever printed in England.
Dictes and Sayinges of the Philosophers (11-1/2 in.
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