. The popular history of England : an illustrated history of society and government from the earliest period to our own times . Court Fool and BuBoon. (Harl. M8. 43T9.) 1474.] PATRONAGE OF THE NEW ART OF PKINTING. 171 which had so recently witnessed tlie waste and ferocity of civil war. Edwai-dwas himself a reader. In his Wardrobe Accounts there are entries forbinding his Titus Livius, his Froissart, his Josephus, and his Bible ; aswell as for the cost of fastening chests to remove his hooka from London toEltham. The brother of the queen was the patron of Caxton,who brought hisart to England i
. The popular history of England : an illustrated history of society and government from the earliest period to our own times . Court Fool and BuBoon. (Harl. M8. 43T9.) 1474.] PATRONAGE OF THE NEW ART OF PKINTING. 171 which had so recently witnessed tlie waste and ferocity of civil war. Edwai-dwas himself a reader. In his Wardrobe Accounts there are entries forbinding his Titus Livius, his Froissart, his Josephus, and his Bible ; aswell as for the cost of fastening chests to remove his hooka from London toEltham. The brother of the queen was the patron of Caxton,who brought hisart to England in 1474. For Caxtons press the accomplished Eivers trans-lated The Dictes and Sayings of Philosophers, which was printed at West-minster in 1477; and he afterwards translated two other works for first printer was intimately connected with the family of Edward Earl Rivers presenting liis book, printed by Caxton, to Edward IV. He had a yearly fee, as he says, from Margaret the duchess of Burgundy,king Edwards sister, while he resided at Bruges; and by her command heproceeded with his Historyes of Troye, a translation from the French,which the critical duchess looked over, and found defeute of his English.* * In my Biography of Caxton, of whicli a new edition appeared in 1854, I adopted thaopinion that Caxton had an employment at Bruges, in the court of * the lady Margaret. In avery curious volume, Notice sur Colard Mansion, Libraire et Imprimeur de la Ville de Bruges,Paris, 1829, the author, M. de Prat, shows that Caxton and Mansion, who commenced printing atBruges in 1475, were each carrying out the same views of popularising knowledge, Mansion havingproduced Boethius and Ovids Metamorphoses in French, as well as LArt de bien Mourir, whichworks Caxton also undertook in English. But M. de Prat, hy the discovery of an entry in theregister of
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