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Sun, in the parish of St. Bride's, Fleet Street. In upwards of four hundred works published by this industrious man he displayed unprecedented skill, elegance, and care, and his Gothic type was considered a pattern for his successors. The books that came from his press were chiefly grammars, romances, legends of the saints, and fugitive poems; he never ventured on an English New Testament, nor was any drama published bearing his name. His great patroness, Margaret, the mother of Henry VII., seems to have had little taste to guide De Worde in his selection, for he never reprinted the works of Chaucer or of Gower; nor did his humble patron, Robert Thorney, the mercer, lead him in a better direction. De Worde filled his black-letter books with rude engravings, which he used so indiscriminately that the same cut often served for books of a totally opposite character. By some writers De Worde is considered to be the first introducer of Roman letters into this country; but the honour of that mode of printing is now generally claimed by Pynson, a contemporary. Among other works published by De Worde were
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The Ship of Fools, that great satire that was so long popular in England; Mandeville's lying
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Travels;
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La Morte d'Arthur (from which Tennyson has derived so much inspiration);
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The Golden Legend; and those curious treatises on
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Hunting, Hawking, and Fishing, partly written by Johanna Berners, a prioress of St. Alban's. In De Worde's
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Collection of Christmas Carols
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The boar's head in hand bring I, With garlands gay and rosemary.