A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . he nyght in prayers and orisons unto god that hewil geve hem grace that they may gete that thyng that they may not geteby nature. The kyng or prynce gyrdeth a boute them a swerde in signethat they shold abyde and kepen hym of whom they taken their dispencesand dignyte. The following cut of the sixth or bishops pawn, No. 14, whiche islykened to taverners and vytayllers, is thus described in Caxtons ownwords : The sixte pawn whiche stondeth before the alphyn on the lyftesyde is made in this forme . ffor hit is a man that hath the right h
A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . he nyght in prayers and orisons unto god that hewil geve hem grace that they may gete that thyng that they may not geteby nature. The kyng or prynce gyrdeth a boute them a swerde in signethat they shold abyde and kepen hym of whom they taken their dispencesand dignyte. The following cut of the sixth or bishops pawn, No. 14, whiche islykened to taverners and vytayllers, is thus described in Caxtons ownwords : The sixte pawn whiche stondeth before the alphyn on the lyftesyde is made in this forme . ffor hit is a man that hath the right hondstretched out for to calle men, and holdeth in his left honde a loof ofbreed and a cuppe of wyn . and on his gurdel hangyng a bondel of keyes,and this resemblith the taverners hostelers and sellars of vytayl. and o 10+ WOOD ENGEAVING these ought properly to be sette to fore the alphyn as to fore a juge, forthere sourdeth oft tymes amonge hem contenciou noyse and stryf, whichbehoveth to be determyned and trayted by the alphyn which is juge ofthe The next book containing wood-cuts printed by Caxton is the Mirrour of the World, or thymage of the same, as he entitles itat the head of the table of contents. It is a thin folio consisting ofone hundred leaves ; and, in the Prologue, Caxton informs the readerthat it conteyneth in all Ixvii chapitres and xxvii figures, withoutwhich it may not lightly be understade. He also says that hetranslated it from the French at the request, desire, coste, and dispenseof the honourable and worshipful man Hugh Bryce, alderman cytezeynof London, who intended to present the same to William, LordHastings, chamberlain to Edward IV, and lieutenant of the same forthe town of Calais and the marches there. On the last page he againmentions Hugh Bryce and Lord Hastings, and says of his translation: Whiche book I begun first to traslate the second day of Janyuerthe yere of our lord And fynysshed the viii day of Marchethe same yere, and
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