The Booke of Thenseygnementes And Techynge That the Knyght of the Towre Made to
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The latter was the first printed edition of the Knight's book, as in France it did not attain to type till 1514, although a German edition was produced in 1493. The earlier English version, which is preferred to 109 Carton's for its superior literary merit, was edited in 1868 by Mr. T. Wright, F. S. A. , for the Early English Text Society. The MS. Being imperfect, the editor supplied the missing passages with extracts from Caxton's rendering. "With this trifling exception, if exception it can b...e considered, Caxton's KNIGHT OF THE TOTXTER, as it is usually called, has never been reproduced, and therefore the following selec- tions, comprising a little more than half of the whole book, will be new to the great majority of readers, since the extreme rarity of the Caxton original renders it practically inaccessible to all but a very few. The present reprint is from one of the two copies in the British Museum. The Knight's prologue sets forth how he came to compose the book for the instruction of his little girls, and now he employed " two preestes and two clerkes that he hadde " to collect the materials.
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