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Caxton and Fifteenth-Century English Books
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The 1473– 4 Recuyell of the historyes of Troye is the first recorded translation by William Caxton of a text into English. It was also the first book printed in English, issued from presses in Bruges where the mercer was then resident. And it is the first printed book to say something about an English vernacular author: Caxton names Lydgate as an important model for his own literary endeavours as he embeds the three books of his translation within a very detailed account of those endeavours:[A]s moche as that worship[p]full and religyous man dan John Lidgate, monke of Burye, dide translate hit I fere to take upon me, that am not worthy to bere his penner and ynkehorne after hym, to modle me in that werke.
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The 1473– 4 Recuyell of the historyes of Troye is the first recorded translation by William Caxton of a text into English.
It was also the first book printed in English, issued from presses in Bruges where the mercer was then resident.
And it is the first printed book to say something about an English vernacular author: Caxton names Lydgate as an important model for his own literary endeavours as he embeds the three books of his translation within a very detailed account of those endeavours:[A]s moche as that worship[p]full and religyous man dan John Lidgate, monke of Burye, dide translate hit I fere to take upon me, that am not worthy to bere his penner and ynkehorne after hym, to modle me in that werke.
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