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Title: Great men and famous women : a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Volume 5
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: Biography
Publisher: New York : Selmar Hess
Contributing Library: Kelly - University of Toronto

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ised his business inan-old chapel near the entrance of the abbey ; but a very curious placard, a copyof which, in Caxtons largest type, is now at Oxford in the late Mr. Douceslibrary, shows that he printed in the Almonry. It is as follows : If it pleseany man spirituel or temporel to bye ony Pyes of two and thre comemoracionsof Salisburi vse emprynted, after the forme of this present lettre whiche ben weland truly correct, late hym come to Westmonester in to the Almonesrye at thereed pole and he shal have them good chepe. Supplico stet ccdula. Accordingto Bagford, Caxtons office was afterward removed to King Street. From the evidence of Wynkyn de Worde, in the colophon of his edition of*Vitae Patrum, 1495, it appears that these Lives of the Fathers were trans-lated out of French into English by William Caxton, of Westminster, latelydead, and that he finished the work at the last day of his life. His death,however, seems fixed, by two or three entries in the parish accounts of St. Mar-
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CO03UJ cc Q.03Z o I- X < o so 2: LLlLlJ ICO h- 03 a: ui I CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS 131 garet, Westminster, to the year 1491 or 1492, in which we read, Item : attebureyng of WilHam Caxton for iiij, torches vj* viij. Item : for the belle atsame Bureyng vj*. Wynkyn de Worde no doubt referred to this time. Caxton, Mr. Warton observes, by translating, or procuring to be translated,a great number of books from the French, greatly contributed to promote thestate of literature in England. In regard to his types, Mr. Dibdin says he ap-pears to have made use of five distinct sets, or fonts, of letters, which, in his ac-count of Caxtons works, he has engraved plates in fac-simile. Edward RoweMores, in his Dissertation upon English Typographical Founders and Foun-dries, says Caxtons letter was originally of the sort called Secretary, and of thishe had two fonts ; afterward he came nearer to the English face, and had threefonts of Great Primer, a rude one which he used anno 1474, another somethingb

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