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 datæ,’ dating from 11 Dec. 1482 to February 1483, 4to, †, Westminster, 1483? [unique copy in Hecht-Heinean Library, Halberstadt]. 40.* Gower's ‘Confessio Amantis,’ large fol. †, Westminster, 2 Sept. 1483; the year is given as ‘a thousand cccc lxxxxiij,’ a typographical error for lxxxiij [17]. 41.* ‘The Knight of the Tower's book of teaching for his daughters,’ translated from the French by Caxton from ‘Le Livre du Chevalier de la Tour Landry,’ fol. †, Westminster, 31 Jan. 1484 [6]. 42.* ‘Caton,’ an elaborate commentary on Cato's distiches, translated by Caxton from the French in 1483, fol. Westminster? 1484? [12]. 43.* ‘The Golden Legend,’ paraphrased (20 Nov. 1483) by Caxton from Jacobus a Voragine's ‘Aurea Legenda’ or lives of saints, with the help of English and French translations, large fol. *, with woodcuts; 1st edition †, Westminster, 1484? [30]; 2nd edition 1487? [fragments only in British Museum, Bodleian, Cambridge University Library, and Chatsworth Library]; 3rd edition, though with colophon, ‘1494 [printed] By me, Wyllyam Caxton,’ obviously printed by Wynkyn de Worde. 44. ‘Death-bed Prayers,’ fol. broadside, 1484? [unique, Rylands Libr.]. 45. ‘The Fables of Æsop,’ translated by Caxton from the French, fol. †, Westminster, 26 March 1484, with woodcuts [unique perfect copy at Windsor, imperfect copies at British Museum and Oxford]. 46.* ‘The Order of Chivalry,’ translated by Caxton and dedicated to Richard III, 4to, Westminster? 1484? [4]. 47.* ‘The Book of Fame made by Gefferey Chaucer,’ with an epilogue, giving the printer's opinion of Chaucer as a great poet, fol. †, Westminster? 1484? [4]. 48.* ‘The Curial,’ translated by Caxton from the French of Alain Chartier, fol. Westminster? 1484? [2]. 49.* Chaucer's ‘Troylus and Creside,’ fol. Westminster? 1484? [4]. 50.* Lydgate's ‘Life of our Lady,’ †, Westminster, 1484? [9]. 51.* ‘The Life of Saint Winifred,’ translated by Caxton, fol. Westminster? 1485? [3]. 52. ‘The Noble Histories of King Arthur and of certain of his Knights,’ by Sir Thomas Malory, fol. †, Westminster, 31 July 1485 [unique perfect copy formerly in Earl Jersey's library at Osterley Park, sold in 1885 to Robert Hoe, of New York; Rylands Libr. has an imperfect copy, and a fragment is in British Museum]. This book has been very frequently reprinted, and is still popular as the source of all the numerous English poetic versions of the Arthurian romance. 53.* ‘The Life of Charles the Great,’ translated by Caxton, fol. †, Westminster? 1 Dec. 1485 [unique in British Museum]. Reprinted by the Early English Text Society in 1881–2. 54.* ‘The Knight Paris and the Fair Vienne,’ translated from the French romance by Caxton, fol. †, Westminster, 19 Dec. 1485 [unique in British Museum]. Reprinted for the Roxburghe Club in 1868. 55. ‘The Book of Good Manners,’ translated by Caxton at the desire of his friend Pratt, fol. †, Westminster? 11 May 1487 [3]. 56.* ‘Speculum Vitæ Christi,’ translated by an anonymous hand from St. Bonaventura's Latin life of Christ, edit. A, fol. †, Westminster? 1487 [8]. One copy in British Museum is on vellum. Edit. B, fol. †, Westminster? 1488? [5]. 57.* ‘The Royal Book, or Book for a King,’ translated from the French by Caxton (13 Sept. 1484), fol. with small vignette woodcuts; Westminster? 1488? [8]. 58. ‘The Image of Pity,’ 4to, broadside, with woodcuts of crucifixion, 1489? 59. ‘The Doctrinal of Sapience,’ translated from the French by Caxton, 7