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The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye

Translation by Caxton
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account of Trojan War

Achilles killing Penthesilea during the Trojan War, interior of an Attic cup, c. 460 bc; in the Museum of Antiquities, Munich.
...Le Fèvre’s Recueil des histoires de Troye (1464), an account based on Guido, was translated into English by William Caxton and became the first book to be printed in English as The Recuyell of the Histories of Troye ( c. 1474).

history of publishing

The Gutenberg 42-line Bible, printed in Mainz, Ger., in 1455.
...was a native, William Caxton. After learning to print at Cologne (1471–72), Caxton set up a press at Bruges (about 1474), where he had long been established in business. His first book, The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye, was his own translation from the French, and its production was probably the main reason why this semiretired merchant gentleman took to printing at the...

translation by Caxton

Portion of a page from William Caxton’s edition of Cicero’s Desenectute, printed at Westminster, Eng., in 1481.
...finish until September 19, 1471. In Cologne, where he lived from 1470 to the end of 1472, he learned printing. In the epilogue of Book III of the completed translation, entitled The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye, he tells how his “pen became worn, his hand weary, his eye dimmed” with copying the book; so he “practised and learnt” at great...
...de Sainte-Maure, Guido’s work was widely translated throughout Europe. William Caxton, the first English printer, translated it from a French source and published it in Bruges about 1474 as The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye, the first book Caxton printed and the first book printed in the English language.
Text in Times New Roman, a typeface designed by Stanley Morison.
...translation of a French work—Raoul Le Fèvre’s Recueil des histoires de Troye—exactly as he wanted it to be printed. Setting up in business in Bruges in 1473, he issued The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye, the first book printed in English, about 1474; in 1476 he returned to England and established a press in Westminster. The first dated book printed in...
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