  BY E. GORDON DUFF, M. A. OXON. device CHICAGO COPYRIGHT BY THE CAXTON CLUB
[From the cover of a book in the library of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.] | ||
| I. | This contains the verse relating to Caxton's first learning to print. [From the copy in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.] (Erratum: Read Prologue for Epilogue on Plate I.) | 22 |
| II. | Printed in Caxton's Type 1. Leaf 253, the first of the third book. [From the copy in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.] | 28 |
| III. | Printed in Caxton's Type 3. [From the copy in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.] | 36 |
| IV. | Printed in Caxton's Type 2. [From the copy in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.] | 38 |
| V. | Printed in Caxton's Type 3. Intended as an advertisement for the Pica or Directorium ad usum Sarum. [From the copy in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.] | 42 |
| VI. | Printed in Caxton's Type 2*. The woodcuts in this book are the first used in England. [From the copy in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.] | 50 |
| VII. | Printed in Caxton's Type 2*. This shows a diagram with the explanations filled in in MS. [From the copy in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.] | 50 |
| VIII. | Printed in Caxton's Type 2*. The wood-cut represents the philosopher who invented the game. [From the copy in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.] | 52 |
| IX. | Printed in Caxton's Type 4*. The colophon to the second part of the book entitled "Quattuor Sermones." [From the copy in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.] | 56 |
| X. | Printed in Caxton's Type 4*. This is the second edition printed by Caxton, but the first with illustrations. [From the copy in the British Museum.] | 58 |
| XI. | Printed in Caxton's Type 4*. These two cuts show the ordinary type of work throughout the book. [From the copy in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.] | 60 |
| XII. | The wood-cut here shewn is engraved in an entirely different manner from the rest. [From the copy in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.] | 60 |
| XIII. | Shewing the only ornamental initial letter used by Caxton. [From the copy in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.] | 62 |
| XIV. | [From the unique wood-cut in the British Museum.] | 66 |
| XV. | Printed in Caxton's Type 5. The wood-cut depicts the visit of Christ to Mary and Martha. [From the copy in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.] | 66 |
| XVI. | [From an example in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.] | 70 |
| XVII. | Printed at Paris by W. Maynyal, probably for Caxton. The book is known only from fragments. [From a leaf in the University Library, Cambridge.] | 70 |
| XVIII. | Printed in Caxton's Type 7. This type is not mentioned by Blades in his Life of Caxton. [From a copy in the British Museum.] | 72 |
| XIX. | Printed in Caxton's Type 6. This page gives Caxton's curious story about the variations in the English language. [From the copy in the British Museum.] | 76 |
| XX. | Printed in Caxton's Type 6 [text] and 8 [heading]. [From the unique copy in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.] | 76 |
| XXI. | Printed in Caxton's Type 5. [From the unique copy in the British Museum.] | 78 |
| XXII. | Used by Caxton in the Fifteen Oes, and frequently afterwards by Wynkyn de Worde. [From an example in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.] | 78 |
| XXIII. | Printed by W. de Worde with a modification of Caxton's Type 4*. The large initials serve to distinguish de Worde's work from Caxton's. [From the copy in the British Museum.] | 80 |
| XXIV. and XXV. | Two leaves, one with the colophon, from a manuscript prepared by Caxton for the press, and perhaps in his own hand. [From the MS. in the Pepysian Library, Magdalene College, Cambridge.] | 82 |
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