It is a suggestion of Blades that the occasion for the publication of the treatise _The Arte and Craft to Die Well_, was the death, in 1490, of Caxton’s wife Maude. Blades goes on to say, however, that there is no direct evidence that the Maude Caxton who died in that year and who was buried at S. Margaret’s was the wife of the printer. The work done by Caxton as a translator includes versions of the following books: _The Whole Life of Jason_, _The Mirrour of the World_, _Reynard the Fox_, _Godfrey of Bulloyne_, _The Golden Legend_, _The Book Called Caton_, _The Knight of the Tower_, _Æsop’s Fables_, _The Order of Chivalry_, _The Royal Book_, _The Life of Charles the Great_, _The History of the Knight and the Fair Vienne_, _The Book of Good Manners_, _The Doctrinal of Sapience_, _The Faytes of Arms_, _The Arte and Craft to Die Well_, _Eneydos_, _The Curial_, _The Life of S. Winifred_, _Blanchardin and Eglantine_, _The Four Sons of Aymon_, _The Gouvernayle of Health_, and the _Vitæ Patrum_. This last was, at the time of his death not quite finished. These volumes, when printed, comprised together more than forty-five hundred pages. It would appear, therefore, that, apart from the very considerable labours and responsibilities of the management of his printing-office, nearly all the employees in which must have required training in each detail of their work, Caxton must have kept his time very fully occupied. Blades finds record from Caxton’s journal, that ten weeks’ time was required for the translation of _The Mirrour of the World_, containing one hundred and ninety-eight pages, and twelve weeks for _Godfrey of Bulloyne_, which contained two hundred and eighty-four pages. It may be assumed, however, that leisure for the literary work could be found only occasionally when the labour in the printing-office did not happen to be continuous. The time required for printing these books varied materially, according to the book. The edition of _Cordyale_, a volume of one hundred and fifty-two pages, was completed in seven weeks, while the _Godfrey_ took nearly six months. I do not find any record of the number of copies printed in the editions, nor does there seem to have been any uniform list of selling prices. Under Caxton’s will, it appears (the will itself not having as yet been discovered) that fifteen copies of _The Golden Legend_ were “bequothen to the Chirch behove by William Caxston.” The citation is from the parish accounts of S. Margaret’s. In 1496, or about five years after the death of Caxton, the churchwardens had sold but three of the fifteen copies, for two of which they secured 6s. 8d. each and for the third 6s. 4d. The remaining copies were sold within the next sixteen years at an average price of 5s. 8d. It is probable that the price asked for these copies by the churchwardens was, at the outset at least, based upon the usual selling price of the printing-office.