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10 Point Lining Keystone Old Style
IN THE PREFACE to his Tales of Trov, Caxton
tells us, 'my pen is worn, my hand weary and
not steadfast, mine eves dimmed with overmuch
lookiig on the white paper, and my courage not
so pronte and ready to labour as it hath been, and
that age creepeth on me daily and feebleth all
the body, and also because I have )rolised to
divers gentlemen and to my friends to address to
them as hastily as I might the said book, there-
fore I have practised and learied at my great
charge and dispense to ordaint the said book in
print after the maiier and form as ye may see,
and is iot written with )ei aid iik as other
hooks be, to the end that every man may have
them at once, for all the books of this story here
iiimprviited as ye may see were )eguul in one day
aitd also finished in one day." The priiting press
was the precious freight lie brought back to Eng-
land after ant abseice of five-and-thirty years.
TIrough the nevt fiften, at an age when other Imen
look ftr case and retirement, we see him plunging
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10 Point Caslon Old Style
IN THE PREFACE to his Tales of Troy, Caxton
tells us, "my pen is worn, my hand weary and not
steadfast, mine eyes dimmed with overmuch looking
on the white paper, and my courage not so prone and
ready to labour as it hath been, and that age creepeth
on me daily and feebleth all the body, and also be-
cause I have promised to divers gentlemen and to
my friends to address to them as hastily as I might
the said book, therefore I have practised and learned
at my great charge and dispense to ordain the said
book in print after the manner and form as ye may
see, and is not written with pen and ink as other books
be, to the end that every man may have them at once,
for all the books of this story here imprynted as ye
may see were begun in one day and also finished in
one day." The printing press was the precious freight
he brought back to England after an absence of five-
and-thirty years. Through the next fifteen, at an age
when other men look for ease and retirement, we see
him plunging with characteristic enei,:y into his new
occupation. His "red pale," or beraldic shield marked
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10 Point Caslon Ligtface
In the preface to his Tales of Troy, Caxton tells us, "my pen is worn, my hand
weary and not steadfast, mine eyes dimmed with overmuch looking on the white
paper, and my courage not so prone and ready to labour as it hath been, and that
age creepeth on me daily and feebleth all the body, and also because I have
promised to divers gentlemen and to my friends to address to them as hastily as
I might the said book, therefore I have practised and learned at my great charge
and dispense to ordain the said book in print after the manner and form as ye
may see, and is not written with pen and ink as other books be, to the end that
every man may have them at once, for all the books of this story here imprynted
as ye may see were begun in one day and also finished in one day." The print-
ing press was the precious freight he brought back to England after an absence of
five-and-thirty years. Through the next fifteen, at an age when other men look
for ease and retirement, we see him plunging with characteristic energy into his
new occupation. His "red pale," or heraldic shield marked with a red bar far
down the middle, invited buyers to the press established in the Almonry at West-
minster, a little enclosure near the west front of the church. Busy as was Caxton's
printilng press, he was even busier as a translator than a printer. More than four
Iliousaid of his prinited pages are froim woorks of his own rendering. The need

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