After the death of De Worde, Pynson continued the work of the Caxton Press with his own imprint. Among the more important of his earlier issues were the translation of _Froissart_, by Lord Berners, and his English version of the famous _Navis Stultifera Mortalium_, issued under the title of _The Shyp of Folys_. Up to the date of about 1490, the fonts used in the Caxton Press were purchased either in Bruges or in Cologne. In 1493, Pynson imported some French fonts, which probably came from Rouen. Lord Berners makes the “Book-fool,” the first described of the passengers of the _Ship of Fools_, to speak as follows: “I am the firste fole of all the whole Navy To kepe the pompe, the helme, and eke the sayle; And this is my mynde, this one pleasure have I Of books to have great plenty, and aparayle Yet take no wisdom by them; nor yet avayle, Nor them perceyve not.” “The fole” (whose modern name would, of course, be “bibliomaniac”) possesses his books, in short, for show, for the repute of having a library, and for their fine binding: “Full Goodly bounde in pleasant Couverture Of Damas, satin, or else of velvet pure.” Pynson did not confine his list to books of satire or of amusement, although these formed by far the larger proportion of his publications. He continued the series of chronicles begun by Caxton. In 1516, he published the _Chronicle Fabyan_, in which Brute, of the regal family of Priam of Troy, is made the founder of the first colony in the British Isles. With hardly an exception, the books of both De Worde and Pynson were very fully illustrated. Their interest in illustrated texts had been formed in the environment of the Flemish school, the printers in which seem to have considered that a book without illustrations was hardly complete. It was of course also the case that the class of literature selected by the first group of the English printers was in its subject-matter much more available for illustration than were the classical texts or the controversial and theological treatises which were at this time absorbing so large a share of the attention of the printers in Paris, in Germany, and in Switzerland.