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All the winter within doors, some few playing at chesse, but most drinking their time away.
Caxton seems to have seen at once the vast importance of the invention, and got Mansion to print two books in English, the first ever set up in the language. These were: "A Recuyell of the Historyes of Troie," printed 1474; and "The Game and Playe of the Chesse." Apparently the experiment met with success.
The first book Caxton printed, after he returned to England and established himself at the Almonry, is supposed to be The Game and Play of Chesse, dated 1474. But some have raised doubts whether this was printed in England, as there is no actual evidence of it.
The common game is chesse, almost the simplest will Both giue a checke and eke a mate, by practise comes their skill.
Caxton publishes his first book, The Game and Playe of the Chesse. Emperor Frederick IV refuses to give Charles, Duke of Burgundy, the title of king; war ensues; Charles conquers Lorraine. Switzerland unsuccessfully invaded by the Duke of Burgundy. Assassination of Sforza, Duke of Milan; his son Gian Galeazzo Maria succeeds, under the regency of his mother, Bona.
All the winter within doors, some few playing at chesse, but most drinking their time away.
His Recuyell and The Game and Playe of Chesse had already been printed the first books in English on the Continent. Here was produced the first book printed in England, The Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers . C. obtained Royal favour, printed from 80 to 100 separate works many of them translations of his own and d. almost with pen in hand in 1491. His style is clear and idiomatic.
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