William Caxton
Biographie
Né vers 1415-1422 — Mort en 1492
Imprimeur et traducteur anglais
On lui doit les éditions suivantes:
- [anonyme], Gesta Romanorum
[Köln], [Imprimeur des Flores sancti Augustini (Johann Schilling) pour William Caxton], [vers 1472]Exemplaires en ligne: [Düsseldorf] [München] - Iacopo da Cessolis, The game and playe of the chesse
Bruges, [William Caxton] et Colart Mansion, 1474Exemplaires en ligne: [HT] - (trad.: ), The recuyell of the historyes of Troye
[Gand?], [David Aubert? pour William Caxton], [vers 1473-1474] - , Le recueil des hystoires troyennes
[Gand ou Bruges?], [David Aubert pour William Caxton?], [vers 1474-1475]Exemplaires en ligne: [Gallica] - [anonyme], Cato
[Westminster], [William Caxton], [vers 1476] - , Le roman de Jason et Medee
[Gand ou Bruges?], [David Aubert pour William Caxton?], [vers 1476] - Anthony Woodville, The book named the dictes or sayengis of the philosophhres
[Westminster], William Caxton, 1477 - [anonyme], Cato
[Westminster], [William Caxton], [vers 1477] - (trad.: ), The historie of Jason
[Westminster], [William Caxton], [vers 1477]Exemplaires en ligne: [London] - Anthony Woodville, The morale proverbes of Cristyne
[Westminster], William Caxton, 1478 - John Lydgate, The temple of glas
[Westminster], [William Caxton], [avant 1479] - [anonyme], The book of curtesye
[Westminster], [William Caxton], [vers 1477-1478] - Anthony Woodville, Cordyal
[Westminster], William Caxton, 1479 - Anthony Woodville, The book named the dictes or sayengis of the philosophres
[Westminster], William Caxton, [1479 ou 1480] - [anonyme], [Vocabulary in French and English]
Westminster, [William Caxton], [vers 1480] - [anonyme] (trad.: ), The historye of Reynart the foxe
[Westminster], William Caxton, 1481 - (trad.: ), Myrrour of the worlde
[Westminster], [William Caxton], [après le 12 août 1481]Exemplaires en ligne: [Cambridge] [Washington] - [anonyme] (trad.: ), Godefrey of Boloyne, or The siege and conquest of Jerusalem
Westminster, William Caxton, 20 novembre 1481 - Ranulphus Higden (trad.: John Trevisa), Prolicionycion
[Westminster], William Caxton, [entre le 2 juillet et le 8 octobre 1482] - , The copye of a lettre whyche maistre Alayn Charetier wrote to hys brother
[Westminster], William Caxton, [1483] - [anonyme], Cato
[Westminster], [William Caxton], [1483]Exemplaires en ligne: [BL] - Iacopo da Varazze, The legende named in latyn legenda aurea, that is to saye in englysshe the golden legende
Westminster, William Caxton, 1483 - Iacopo da Varazze, The legende named in latyn legenda aurea, that is to saye in englysshe the golden legende
Westminster, William Caxton, 1483 - Guillaume de Digulleville (trad.: [anonyme]), This book is intytled the pylgremage of the sowle translated oute of Frensshe in to Englysshe
[Westminster], [William Caxton], [1483]Exemplaires en ligne: [Manchester] - Guillaume de Digulleville (trad.: [anonyme]), This book is intytled the pylgremage of the sowle translated oute of Frensshe in to Englysshe
Westminster, William Caxton, 6 juin 1483 - John Gower, Confessio amantis, that is to saye in englysshe the confessyon of the lover
Westminster, William Caxton, 2 septembre 14[8]3 - [anonyme] (trad.: Nicholas Love), The myrroure of the blessyd lyf of Jhesu Cryste
[Westminster], [William Caxton], [vers 1484] - (trad.: ), The booke which the knyght of the toure made and speketh of many fayre ensamples and thensygnementys and techyng of his doughters
[Westminster], William Caxton, 1484 - [Référence incomplète] (trad.: ), Fables
Westminster, William Caxton, 26 mars 1484Exemplaires en ligne: [London] - [anonyme], Thystorye and lyf of the noble and crysten prynce Charles the grete kynge of Fraunce
[Westminster], William Caxton, 1485 - Thomas Malory, Le morte darthur
Westminster, William Caxton, 31 juillet 1485Exemplaires en ligne: [Manchester] - (trad.: ), Paris and Vienne
Westminster, William Caxton, 19 décembre 1485Exemplaires en ligne: [London] - (trad.: ), This book was compyled [and] made atte requeste of kyng Phelyp of Fraunce [...] whyche book is callyd in frensshe. le liure royal· that is to say the ryal book. or a book for a kyng. [...]
Westminster, William Caxton, [vers 1485-1486] - (trad.: ), The book of good manners
[Westminster], William Caxton, 11 mai 1487Exemplaires en ligne: [London] - [anonyme] (trad.: ), The historye of Reynart the foxe
[Westminster], William Caxton, [vers 1489] - [anonyme] (trad.: ), The four sons of Aymon
[Westminster], [William Caxton], [1489] - [anonyme], The boke of the fayt of armes and of chyvalrye
[Westminster], William Caxton, 1489Exemplaires en ligne: [Oxford] - Anthony Woodville, The book named the dictes or sayengis of the philosophres
[Westminster], William Caxton, 1489 - (trad.: ), Myrrour of the worlde
[Westminster], William Caxton, [vers 1489-1490] - [anonyme] (trad.: Nicholas Love), The myrroure of the blessyd lyf of Jhesu Cryste
[Westminster], [William Caxton], [vers 1489-1490] - [anonyme] (trad.: ), Blanchardyn and Eglantine
[Westminster], [William Caxton], [vers 1490] - [Référence incomplète] (trad.: ), Eneydos
[Westminster], William Caxton, [après le 22 juin 1490] - Heinrich Seuse (trad.: [anonyme]), A lytill shorte treatyse, that tellyth how there were. vii. maysters, assembled togydre, every the one asked other what thynge they myghte lest speke of, that myght plese god, and were moost profitable to the people. And all they were acoorded to speke of tribulacyon
[Westminster], [William Caxton], [vers 1491] - [anonyme], Here begynneth a lytyll treatyse schortely compyled and called ars moriendi, that is to saye the craft for to deye for the helthe of mannes sowle.
[Westminster], [William Caxton ou Wynkyn de Worde], [vers 1491] - Iacopo da Varazze, The legende named in latyn legenda aurea, that is to say in englyshe the golden legende
Westminster, William Caxton, 1493
Œuvres:
- The game and playe of the chesse
- The recuyell of the historyes of Troye
- The history of Jason
- The mirrour of the world
- The metamorphoses of Ovid
- The historye of Reynart the foxe
- Godeffroy of Boloyne or the siege and conqueste of Jerusalem
- Polychronicon
- Dialogues in French and English
- The book whiche the Knyght of the Toure Made
- The curial
- The golden legende
- The ryal book
- Thystorye and lyf of the noble and crysten prynce Charles the grete kynge of Fraunce
- Paris and Vienne
- The book of good manners
- The boke of the fayt of armes and of chyvalrye
- Blanchardyn and Eglantine
- Esope
- Eneydos
- The four sons of Aymon
- The craft for to die for the health of man's soule
- The lyff of the olde auncyent holy faders hermytes
Bibliographie
Recueils
- Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse with an introduction by Alfred W. Pollard, Westminster, Constable, 1903, xxvii + 324 p. [GB] [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2]
- The Prologues and Epilogues of William Caxton, by W. J. B. Crotch, London, Oxford University Press (Early English Text Society. Original Series, 176), 1928, clxiii + 115 p. [GB] [IA]
Réimpressions:
- Adams, Jenny, Power Play: The Literature and Politics of Chess in the Late Middle Ages, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press (The Middle Ages Series), 2006, [ix] + 252 p. [IA]
Édition antérieure:
- Adams, Jenny, Gender, Play, and Power: The Literary Uses and Cultural Meanings of Medieval Chess in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries, Ph. D. dissertation, University of Chicago, 2000, vii + 202 p. [PQ]
- Ames, Joseph, Typographical Antiquities; or the History of Printing in England, Scotland and Ireland: Containing Memoirs of our Ancient Printers, and a Register of the Books Printed by Them. Considerably augmented by William Herbert, of Cheshunt, Herts; and now greatly enlarged, with copious notes, and illustrated with appropriate engravings; comprehending the history of English literature, and a view of the progress of the art of engraving, in Great Britain; by the Rev. Thomas Frognall Dibdin, London, Miller, Murray puis Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1810-1819, 4 t. [GB: t. 1, t. 2, t. 3, t. 4] [IA: t. 1, t. 2, t. 3, t. 4]
Éditions antérieures:
- Ames, Joseph, Typographical Antiquities: Being an Historical Account of Printing in England: with some Memoirs of our Antient Printers, and a Register of the Books Printed by Them, from the Year MCCCCLXXI to the Year MDC. With an Appendix Concerning Printing in Scotland and Ireland to the Same Time, London, Faden; London, Robinson, 1749, [xviii] + 625 p. [GB] [IA]
- Ames, Joseph, Typographical Antiquities; or an Historical Account of the Origin and Process of Printing in Great Britain and Ireland: Containing Memoirs of our Ancient Printers and a Register of Books Printed by Them, from the Year MCCCCLXXI to the Year MDC. Considerably augmented, both in the memoirs and numbers of books, by William Herbert, of Cheshunt, Herts., London, chez l'éditeur [GB: t. 1, t. 2, t. 3] [IA: t. 1, t. 2, t. 3]
- Arner, Timothy D., Trojan Wars: Genre and the Politics of Authorship in Late Medieval and Early Modern England, Ph. D. dissertation, Pennsylvania State University, 2007, ix + 224 p. [libraries.psu.edu]
- Barron, W. R. J., English Medieval Romance, London et New York, Longman (Longman Literature in English Series), 1987, xiv + 288 p. [IA]
- Bennett, J. A. W., « Caxton and Gower », The Modern Language Review, 45:2, 1950, p. 215-216. DOI: 10.2307/3719437
- Blades, William, A Catalogue of Books Printed by (or Ascribed to the Press of) William Caxton in Which Is Included the Press-Mark of Every Copy Contained in the Library of the British Museum, London, s. n., 1865, 38 p. [GB] [IA]
- Blades, William, How to Tell a Caxton, With Some Hints Where and How the Same Might Be Found, London, Sotheran, 1870, [ii] + viii + 55 p. + 16 pl. [GB] [IA]
- Blades, William, The Biography and Typography of William Caxton, England's First Printer, London, Trübner and Co.; Strassburg, Karl J. Trübner, 2e éd., 1882, xii + 387 p. [GB] [IA]
Éditions antérieures:
- Blades, William, The Life and Typography of William Caxton, England's First Printer, with Evidence of his Typographical Connection with Colard Mansion, the Printer at Bruges. Compiled from Original Sources, London, Lilly, 1861-1863, 2 t. [GB: t. 1, t. 2] [IA: t. 1, t. 2]
- Blades, William, The Biography and Typography of William Caxton, England's First Printer, London, Trübner and Co.; Strassburg, Karl J. Trübner, 1877, viii + 383 p. [GB] [IA]
Réimpression:
- London, Frederick Muller, 1971
- Blake, N. F., « Caxton and courtly style », Essays and Studies, n. s., 21, 1968, p. 35-44.
- Blake, N. F., « John Lydgate and William Caxton », Leeds Studies in English, 16, 1985, p. 272-289.
- Blatt, Heather, Participatory Reading in Late-Medieval England, Manchester, Manchester University Press (Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture), 2018, vii + 261 p. [oapen.org]
Compte rendu:
Jennifer N. Brown, dans The Medieval Review, 19.12.15, 2019. [www] - Bornstein, Diane, « William Caxton's chivalric romances and the Burgundian Renaissance in England », English Studies, 57, 1976, p. 1-10.
- Butterfield, Ardis, The Familiar Enemy: Chaucer, Language and Nation in the Hundred Years War, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2009, xxxii + 444 p. [IA]
Compte rendu:
David A. Fein, dans French Studies, 64:4, 2010, p. 476-477. [www] DOI: 10.1093/fs/knq162 - Calin, William, The French Tradition and the Literature of Medieval England, Toronto, Buffalo et London, University of Toronto Press (University of Toronto Romance Series), 1994, xvi + 587 p. [IA]
- Childs, Edmund, William Caxton: A Portrait in a Background, London, Northwood, 1976, 190 p.
- Corsten, Severin, « Caxton in Cologne », Journal of the Printing Historical Society, 11, 1976, p. 1-19.
- Dane, Joseph A., Abstractions of Evidence in the Study of Manuscripts and Early Printed Books, Farnham, Ashgate, 2009, viii + 176 p.
- Field, P. J. C., « Caxton's Roman War », Arthuriana, 5:2, 1995, p. 31-73.
- Fisher, John H., « Caxton and chancery English », Fifteenth-Century Studies: Recent Essays, éd. Robert F. Yeager, Hamden, Archon Books, 1984, p. 161-185.
- Gellert, Anamaria, « Fools, "folye" and Caxton's woodcut of the pilgrims at table », Manuscripts and Printed Books in Europe 1350-1550: Packaging, Presentation and Consumption, éd. Emma Cayley et Susan Powell, Liverpool, Liverpool University Press (Exeter Studies in Medieval Europe), 2013, p. 150-168 et 266-270.
- Goodman, Jennifer R., « Caxton's chivalric publications of 1480-85 », The Study of Chivalry: Resources and Approaches, éd. Howell Chickerin et Thomas H. Seiler, Kalamazoo, Medieval Institute Publications, 1988, p. 645-661.
- Hellinga, Lotte, « William Caxton, Colard Mansion, and the printer in Type 1 », Bulletin du bibliophile, 2011, 1, p. 86-114.
- Hellinga, Lotte, « William Caxton and Colard Mansion », Colard Mansion: Incunabula, Prints and Manuscripts in Medieval Bruges, éd. Evelien Hauwaerts, Evelien de Wilde et Ludo Vandamme, Gent, 2018, p. 63-69.
- Holzknecht, Karl Julius, Literary Patronage in the Middle Ages, New York, Octagon Books, 1966, vii + 258 p.
- Knight, Charles, William Caxton, the First English Printer; a Biography, London, Knight, 1844, 240 p. [GB] [IA]
- Knight, Charles, William Caxton, the First English Printer. A Biography. New Edition, London, Clowes; London, Hardwicke and Bogue, 1877, 158 p. [GB] [IA]
- Kuskin, William, « Caxton's Worthies series: the production of literary culture », ELH, 66, 1999, p. 511-551.
- Meyer-Lee, Robert J., Poets and Power from Chaucer to Wyatt, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, 61), 2007, xii + 297 p.
- Mills, Robert, Seeing Sodomy in the Middle Ages, Chicago et London, University of Chicago Press, 2015, xiii + 398 p.
- Mohl, Ruth, The Three Estates in Medieval and Renaissance Literature, New York, Ungar, 1933, xi + 425 p. [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2]
- Moll, Richard J., Before Malory: Reading Arthur in Later Medieval England, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2003, ix + 368 p.
- Ricci, Seymour de, A Census of Caxtons, Oxford University Press for the Bibliographical Society (Illustrated Monographs, 15), 1909, xxxiii + 196 p. [IA]
- Sánchez-Martí, Jordi, « The printed transmission of medieval romance from William Caxton to Wynkyn de Worde, 1473–1533 », The Transmission of Medieval Romance: Metres, Manuscripts and Early Prints, éd. Ad Putter et Judith A. Jefferson, Cambridge, 2018, p. 170–190.
- Schlauch, Margaret, Antecedents of the English Novel, 1400-1600 (from Chaucer to Deloney), Warszawa, PWN-Polish Scientific Publishers; London, Oxford University Press, 1963, viii + 264 p. [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2, ex. 3]
Réimpression:
- Schlauch, Margaret, Antecedents of the English Novel, 1400-1600 (from Chaucer to Deloney), Westport, Greenwood Press, 1979, viii + 264 p. [IA]
- Seymour, Michael C., éd., English Writers of the Late Middle Ages. Nos 7-11, Aldershot et Brookfield, Variorum (Authors of the Middle Ages, 3), 1996, vi + 256 p.
- Takamiya, Toshiyuki, « Caxton's copy-fitting devices in the Morte Darthur (1485): an overview », Chaucer in Perspective: Middle English Essays in Honour of Norman Blake, éd. Geoffrey Lester, Sheffield, Sheffield Academic Press, 1999, p. 358-374.
- Wang, Yu-Chiao, « Caxton’s romances and their early Tudor readers », Huntington Library Quarterly, 67, 2004, p. 173-188.
- Weinberg, S. Carole, « Caxton, Anthony Woodville, and the prologue to the Morte Darthur », Studies in Philology, 102, 2005, p. 45-65.
- Wells, William, « Gower and Caxton », South Atlantic Bulletin, 27:1, 1961, p. 9-10. DOI: 10.2307/3196492
Répertoires bibliographiques
- Bossuat, Robert, Manuel bibliographique de la littérature française du Moyen Âge, Melun, Librairie d'Argences (Bibliothèque elzévirienne. Nouvelle série. Études et documents), 1951, xxxiv + 638 p. (ici p. 102, no 1061)Dictionnaires: DEAF Boss
- Bossuat, Robert, Manuel bibliographique de la littérature française du Moyen Âge. Second supplément (1955-1960), Paris, Librairie d'Argences (Bibliothèque elzévirienne. Nouvelle série: Études et documents), 1961, 132 p. (ici p. 89, no 7864; p. 105, no 7992)
Compte rendu:
Martin Wittek, dans Scriptorium, 16:2, 1962, p. 405, no 735. [Pers] - Vielliard, Françoise, et Jacques Monfrin, Manuel bibliographique de la littérature française du Moyen Âge de Robert Bossuat. Troisième supplément (1960-1980), Paris, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, 1986-1991, 2 t., xii + 1136 p. (ici t. 2, p. 818, no 7532)Dictionnaires: DEAF Boss2Compte rendu: T. 1: Geneviève Hasenohr, dans Bibliothèque de l'École des chartes, 146:1, 1988, p. 194-195. [Pers]
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