Triumphs of invention and discovery, &c. &c. / by J. Hamilton Fyfe.

  • Fyfe, J. Hamilton (James Hamilton), 1837-1880.
Date:
1871
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Credit: Triumphs of invention and discovery, &c. &c. / by J. Hamilton Fyfe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    print it. At the close of the third book of the Recuyell/' he says: Thus end I this book which I have translated after mine author, as nigh as God hath given me cunning, to whom be given the laud and praise. And for as much as in the writing of the same my pen is worn, mine hand weary and not steadfast, mine eyen dimmed with overmuch looking on the white paper, and my courage not so prone and ready to labour as it hath been, and that age creepeth on me daily, and feebleth all the body; and also because I have promised to divers gentlemen and to my friends, to address to them as hastily as I might, this said book, therefore I have practised and learned, at my great charge and dispense, to ordain this said book in print, after the manner and form you may here see ; and is not written with pen and ink as other books are, to the end that every man may have them at once. For all the books of this story, named the Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye, thus imprinted as ye here see, were begun in one day, aud also finished in one day (that is, in the same space of time). By the year 1477, Caxton had returned to London, and set up a printing establishment within the pre- cincts of Westminster Abbey; had given to the world the three first books ever printed in England, —The Game and Play of the Chesse (March 1 474) ; A boke of the hoole Lyf of Jason (1475); and The Dictes and Notable Wyse Sayenges of the