┌─┬────────────────────┬───────────┬─────────┬─────┬───────┬─────────┬─────┐ │ │ Title of Book. │Signatures.│ Printed │Ink. │Device.│Woodcuts.│Lines│ │ │ │ │Initials.│ │ │ │ in │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │Page.│ ├─┼────────────────────┼───────────┼─────────┼─────┼───────┼─────────┼─────┤ │1│Augustini Dacti │ none │ none │black│ none │ none │ 36 │ │ │ elegancie │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │2│Laur: de Saona │ signed │ none │black│ none │ none │ 24 │ │ │ Rhetorica nova │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │3│Alberti quest. de │ signed │ none │black│ none │ none │ 32 │ │ │ modo Significandi │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │4│Joan: Canonici │ signed │ none │black│ none │ none │ 44 │ │ │ Quest. sup. Phys. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Arist. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │5│Exempla sacre │ signed │ none │black│ none │ none │ 32 │ │ │ scripture │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │6│Ant. Andreæ super │ signed │ none │black│ none │ none │ 32 │ │ │ Logica Aristotelis│ │ │ │ │ │ │ │7│Chronicles of │every leaf │ yes │black│ with │ yes │ 32 │ │ │ England │ signed │ │& red│ │ │ │ │8│The Book of St. │ signed │ yes │black│ with │ yes │ 32 │ │ │ Albans │ │ │& red│ │ │ │ └─┴────────────────────┴───────────┴─────────┴─────┴───────┴─────────┴─────┘ But who was the printer? What was his name? Was he associated with the great Abbey? and is there any internal or external evidence in his works to connect him with any other printer or any other town? The only notice we have of the printer is an accidental one by Wynken de Worde, who, in reprinting the St. Albans’ Chronicle, says in the colophon, “Here endith this present Chronicle ... compiled in a book and also enprinted by our sometime Schoolmaster of St. Alban.” He was a schoolmaster, then, and this will account for the nature of his early works, all scholastic and all in Latin. Not till the end of his typographical career did he realise the fact that the printing press, instead of being the hobby of a few learned men, was the educator of the people, the whole nation; and then he gave his countrymen what they wanted—a history of their own country and a book upon the whole (secular) duty of the gentleman, as then understood.