This is not a treatise on the care of domestic animals, but a series of dialogues in verse, attributed to Dr. John Lydgate. It reached a second edition. 1478. “The Chorle and the Bird.” 4to. A Fable, probably by Lydgate. This reached a second edition. 1479 (about). “The Book of Courtesy.” 4to. 1479. “The Temple of Brass or the Parliament of Fowls.” “Envoy of Chaucer to Skogan.” 4to. 1479. “Queen Anelida and False Arcyte.” “The Complaint of Chaucer to His Purse.” 1479. “Boethius de Consolacione Philosophiæ,” translated into English by Geoffrey Chaucer. Folio. “I William Caxton have done my devoir to emprinte it.” With the exception of the anonymous French version printed by Mansion in Bruges, in 1471, this was the first edition of this perennial work issued in Europe in any version but the original Latin. The earliest printed edition of the Latin, that of Koberger, had been issued in Nuremberg in 1473. Boëthius had received continued attention at the hands of the scribes, and the number of manuscript copies available for the earlier printers was possibly greater than of any other classic. M. Paris speaks of five different translations of the “De Consolacione” into French verse, which had been produced in the fifteenth century. Mr. Blades says that the version by Chaucer was made not from the French, but from the original Latin. One of the three copies of the Caxton edition in the British Museum, which was discovered in the library of the school attached to the Abbey of St. Albans (an abbey which had had an old-time association with literature), was noteworthy because in the covers were discovered certain printed sheets of other of Caxton’s publications not previously known.[51] Chaucer appears to have considered this translation to be one of his praiseworthy undertakings. He writes: And for to speke of other holynesse He hath in prose translated Boëce.[52] 1479. “Cordyale, or the Four Last Things.” Folio. Translated from the French by Earl Rivers. 1480. “The Chronicles of England.” Folio. “Emprynted by me William Caxton in thabbey of Westmynstre.” 1st edition. This work is often referred to as “Caxton’s Chronicle.” It presents, in substance, the chronicle of Brute, with the narrative brought down to the battle of Towton (1461). The old chronicle of Brute was so called from the opening chapter, which describes the settlement in Britain of Brutus, the descendant of Æneas.[53] 1481. “Parvus et Magnus Chato.” 3rd edition. Folio. This edition contains two woodcuts, which Mr. Blades believes to be the earliest specimens of wood-engraving in England. In the matter of book-illustrations, the printers of England were, during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, very much surpassed by those of the continent.