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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 588 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AIITHORITIES .—Earlier See also:

biographies of See also:Caxton were superseded by the See also:work of See also:William See also:Blades, whose See also:Life and See also:Typography of William Caxton (2 vols., 1861–1863) remains the See also:standard authority. It contains a bibliography of each of the See also:works issued from Caxton's See also:press. For later discoveries see See also:George Bullen's See also:Catalogue of the Caxton celebration See also:loan collection exhibited at See also:South See also:Kensington in 1877; articles by E. J. L. See also:Scott in the See also:Athenaeum (Feb. 1o, 1900; May 21 and See also:June 8, 1892); articles in Notes and Queries (See also:April 21, 1900; Feb. 24, 1906), and the publications of the Caxton See also:Club, See also:Chicago, notably William Caxton, by E. See also:Gordon See also:Duff (1905). See also See also:Census of Caxtons, by See also:Seymour de See also:Ricci, No. xv. of the illustrated monographs of the See also:Bibliographical Society, 1909. Many of Caxton's See also:translations are available in See also:modern reprints; the See also:Golden See also:Legend, the Recuyell and Godeffroy of Boloyne, were printed by William See also:Morris at the Kelmscott Press in 1892–1893; the Boke of Curtesye (1868), the Lyf of See also:Charles the Grete (188o), Alain See also:Chartier's Curial (1888), Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1884), Eneydos (189o), Blanchardyn and See also:Eglantine (189o), and others, by the See also:Early See also:English See also:Text Society. For modern See also:editions of Reynart see REYNARD THE See also:Fox.

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authentic portrait of Caxton is known, but a MS. at Magdalene See also:College, See also:Cambridge, of the last six books of the Metamorphoses of See also:Ovid, translated by Caxton, is probably in his See also:handwriting.

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