. Old England : a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, baronial, municipal, and popular antiquities . gs their art did so much to preserve for the delightand instruction of posterity. Wynkyn de Worde was the friend, as-sociate, and successor of Caxton. No less than four hundred andeight books are ascribed to his press. Robert Coplande was an assist-ant of de Wordes and himself dabbled in poetry. Pynson, also (assupposed), an assistant of Caxton, became the first Kings , Wyer, and Day were all men eminent in their last named, John Day, was the chief printer o
. Old England : a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, baronial, municipal, and popular antiquities . gs their art did so much to preserve for the delightand instruction of posterity. Wynkyn de Worde was the friend, as-sociate, and successor of Caxton. No less than four hundred andeight books are ascribed to his press. Robert Coplande was an assist-ant of de Wordes and himself dabbled in poetry. Pynson, also (assupposed), an assistant of Caxton, became the first Kings , Wyer, and Day were all men eminent in their last named, John Day, was the chief printer of the was from his press that Foxs Book of Martyrs issued ; or. asthe fact has been paraphrased— He set a Fox to write how martyrs run By death to life. Fox veuturued pains and health To give them light ; Day spent in print his wealth. The marks of all these men will be found among our engravings(Figs. 1771—1776). Days mark is poetically expressive of theday-spring of the Reformation : a sun rising over a landscape, anda sleeper being awakened with the exclamation, Arise, it is day !. 1814.—Edinburgh in the Seventeenth Century,
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