Excerpt from Fac-Similes Illustrating the Labours of William Caxton at Westminster, and Introduction of Printing Into England: With a Memoir of Our First Printer, and Bibliographical Particulars of the Illustrations For fome time he was bufied with the work of his patron, Anthony Wydevile, Earl Rivers, The Dictes or Sayengis of the Philofophres. This work is dated November 18th, 1477, the earlief't certainty, and the real date of the Caxton anniverfary. If we had a book of Caxton's, as we have of Colard Manfion's, Prz'mum opus z'mprej'zmz per Walk/mum Carton, it would be a different matter. As it is we muft work upon the Dietes of November, 1477, until we know more. The Di tes is efpecially interef'ting from the fa 't that the conclufion of it affords us a fpecimen of Caxton's own ftyle of literary compofition. His patron, the Earl, with whom he feems to have been on the molt affec'tionate terms, having omitted to tranflate certain conclufions of Socrates towchyng women, Caxton fupplies the omiffion. Thefe paffages are reproduced in the faefimz'les plaz'es 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. 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.