Caxton's Eneydos, 1490 PDF Download

Author: Virgil Virgil
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780265989951
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Languages : en
Pages : 252

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Excerpt from Caxton's Eneydos, 1490: Englisht From the French Liure Des Eneydes, 1483 This curious little book was printed by Caxton, and specially dedicated to Prince Arthur, eldest son of King Henry VII. It is a translation into English by Caxton himself of a French version of the Aeneid, ' and is a folio, as usual without any title-page but Caxton in his colophon at the end gives the date of the translation as June 22ud, 1490, that being probably the period at which he completed it. There are, according to Mr. Blades in his Biography and Typography of William Caxton, ' eighteen or nineteen copies extant, of which three are in the British Museum, three at St. J ohn's College, Oxford, one at Trinity College, Cambridge, one in the Hunterian Library, Glasgow, and the rest in private libraries. The first and eighth leaves out of a total of eighty-six are blank, but the first is not reckoned in the signature, and the Prologue begins on the second, signed at. The lines are spaced to an even length, measuring four and three-quarter inches, and thirty-one go to a full page. N 0 other edition is known. Caxton englisht his Eneydos either from the French lime des eneydes printed at Lyons by Guillaume Le Roy on Sept. 30, 1483, or from a more correct ms. Of it. A fairly full collation of Mr. Alfred Buth'e copy of the French print has been made by Dr. Furnivall - misprints and all - and will be found at p. 188-214 below. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.