Note 1 — INTRODUCTION.
Reading edition
Memoir by Talbot B. Reed prefixed to The Pentateuch of Printing, by William Blades, 1891, p. xv. The Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers, 1477, was the first book printed in England. The Recuyell of the Histories of Troye, 1471, although the first printed English book, was really printed at Bruges, where also was printed The Game and Playe of the Chesse, 1474.