Cronycles of Englande, Fraunce, … and Other Places Adioynynge
- Title
- Cronycles of Englande, Fraunce, … and Other Places Adioynynge
- Heading
- Richard Pynson
- Description
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Along with William Caxton and Wynkyn de Worde, Richard Pynson (ca 1449-1529/30) is the third in the trio of England’s three major early printers. He started printing in Temple Bar (just outside the boundary of London) 1490, and his first dated work appeared in 1492. In 1501 he moved to Fleet Street, in the City of London. Pynson’s mainstay was legal texts. However, he also issued many texts co-operatively with Wynkyn de Worde (with whom he exchanged woodcuts, borders and type). Like Wynkyn de Worde, he reprinted several texts which had first been issued by Caxton, such as Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, John Mirk’s Liber festivalis, and the story of Reynard the Fox.
Chronicles had been popular since the early Middle Ages. Those of Jean Froissart (1337-1410) cover France, England and to an extent the neighbouring countries in the period of the Hundred Years War. Henry VIII requested an English translation from John Bourchier (1467-1533), and Pynson, as the King’s printer, was the first person to publish the English version. - Author
- Jean Froissart
- Place of Publication
- London
- Publisher
- Richard Pynson
- Date of Publication
- 1523
- Format
- Folio
- Century
- 16th
- Illustrations
- n/a