| Young people - 1877 - 696 páginas
...issued without any date of printing. This was followed by " The Game and Playe of the Chesse, fynyshed the last day of Marche the yer of our lord god, a. thousand foure honderd and Ixxviiii." These two books were printed in English at Bruges, the first book printed with... | |
| Charles Knight - 1877 - 174 páginas
...and werke was begonne in Brugis in 1468 and ended in the holy cyte of Colen 19 Sept. 1471,' fol. 4. 'The Game and Playe of the Chesse, translated out of the French, fynysshid the last day of Marche, 1474,' fol. 5. A second edition of the same, fol. (with woodcuts).... | |
| Dukes of Devonshire Library (Chatsworth) - 1879 - 494 páginas
...preserved and bound at the end of the volume. The first book printed in the english language. of frensh. Fynysshid the last day of Marche the yer of our lord god a thousand foure honderd and LXXIIII. (1474), fol. r. mor. ge Blades, II. 11. First and last leaves mounted ; third... | |
| Heinrich Friedrich L. Meyer - 1882 - 364 páginas
...into French by Jehan de Vignay, and from this, the first printer in England printed his first book : The Game and Playe of the Chesse, translated out of the French and imprynted by William Caxton .... " Fyuysshid the last day of marche the yer of our lord god . a . thousand foure honderd and Ixxiiii."... | |
| English history - 1883 - 282 páginas
...a three-storied house called the Reed Pale, on the north side of the Almonry. There was published " The Game and Playe of the Chesse, translated out of the French," ' 'notable as being the first book ever printed in England. Customers and sight-seers, nodoubt, soon... | |
| 1884 - 750 páginas
...years later issued therefrom his first book — the first printed in England ; it was entitled : " The Game and Playe of the Chesse : Translated out of the French and imprynted by William Caxton. Fynyshed the last day of Marche, the yer of our Lord God, a thousand foure hundred Ixxiiij." He subsequently... | |
| James Shirley Hodson - 1884 - 332 páginas
...the epilogue to the first edition of " The Game and Playe of the Chesse " — where Caxton says, " Fynysshid the last day of Marche, the yer of our Lord God, a thousand foure hondred and Ixxiiij." This date it has been satisfactorily proved gives the time of completing the... | |
| Biographical outlines - 1884 - 100 páginas
...the Reed Pale, near the Almonry, and set up his printingpress there. The first book printed there was The Game and Playe of the Chesse, translated out of the French. When he died in 1491, Wyukyn de Worde and Richard Pynson worked the press. CAEDINAL WOLSEY. Born 1471.—... | |
| 1886 - 372 páginas
...was issued without any date of printing. This was followed by "The Game and Playe of the Chesse," " Fynysshid the last day of marche the yer of our lord god. a. thousand foure hondred and Ixxiiii." These two books were printed at Bruges, the first book printed in England being... | |
| William Francis Collier - 1887 - 536 páginas
...in a three-storied house called the Reed Pale, on the north side of the Almonry. There was published The Game and Playe of the Chesse, translated out of the French, notable as being the first-fruits of the transplanted Press. There his press clanked for seventeen... | |
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