. The history of printing in America : with a biography of printers, and an account of newspapers : to which is prefixed a concise view of the discovery and progress of the art in other parts of the world : in two volumes. auctour, where as to fore, by ygnoraunce, I errydin hurtyng and dyffamyng his book in dyuerce pla-ces, in setting in somme thynges that he neuer saydne made, and leuing out many thynges that hemade, whyche ben requysite to be sette in it. Andthus we fyll at accord, and he ful gentylly gate ofhys fader the said book, and delyuered it to me, bywhyche I have corrected my book,
. The history of printing in America : with a biography of printers, and an account of newspapers : to which is prefixed a concise view of the discovery and progress of the art in other parts of the world : in two volumes. auctour, where as to fore, by ygnoraunce, I errydin hurtyng and dyffamyng his book in dyuerce pla-ces, in setting in somme thynges that he neuer saydne made, and leuing out many thynges that hemade, whyche ben requysite to be sette in it. Andthus we fyll at accord, and he ful gentylly gate ofhys fader the said book, and delyuered it to me, bywhyche I have corrected my book, as heere afteralle alonge, by thayde of almyghty God, shal folowe,whom I humbly beseche, &c. In addition to the other evidences and c ^njec-tures, adduced to prove that Caxton was the fatherof Printing in England, I might ha\e added that ofthe famous antiquary, Joh. Leland, who was nearlycontemporary with Caxton ; part of his works hav-ing been written about forty years after Caxton Spechnm oflfifbnntiuratOxFomi, Ki/GLAmi. <!Erplicit opuo magifin noill)clmil))nC)cuiooT)c<0upercon^ftitucoucGptouincialcG iauo&co ^1 5 Mi 114 ^ ? ^ 2 9 o 5:^ S ^ <-5 ^ r o o ;;! I- ^ \fc ^*-^ <2) ^ s; e c^. + <£^. ^.^ <S ^ ic)31 42v 5 5 ^ sJi ^ M oi .p^/^Z. .«;^:^; j/S i* lUVIUAO IN EtIROPfi. 137 died. This Leland was library keeper to kingHenry VIII; and was employed by the king abouttwelve years, to examine the libraries of the differ-ent monasteries in the kingdom, and to collectwhatever was curious therein. He wrote an ac-count of his discoveries, which he called his Itinera-rium. In a work of his, entitled, De arte amandinwritten before he undertook his Itinerary in 1540,he speaks thus of Caxton, Gulielmum Caxodwiumhominem nee indiligentem^ nee indoctum^ et qiiemconstatprimum Londini artem exeicuisse typograph-^icam, &c. In another work of Leland,* he ex-pressly calls Caxton the first printer of an appendix, I shall insert several of the colo-phons, &c. to Ca
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