See also:ROBERT See also:COPLAND (fi. 1515)
, See also:English printer and author, is said to have been a servant of See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Caxton, and certainly worked for Wynkyn de Worde
.
The first See also:book to which his name is affixed as a printer is The See also:Bake of Justices of See also:Peace (1515), at the sign of the See also:Rose See also:Garland, in See also:Fleet See also:Street, See also:London
.
See also:Anthony a See also:Wood supposed, on the ground that he was more educated than was usual in his See also:trade, that he had been a poor See also:scholar of See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford
.
His best known See also:works are The hye way to the See also:Spy/tell hous, a See also:dialogue in See also:verse between See also:Copland and the See also:porter of St See also:Bartholomew's See also:hospital, containing much See also:information about the vagabonds who found their way there; and Jyl of Breyntfords Testament, dismissed in Athenae Oxonienses (ed
.
See also:Bliss) as " a poem devoid of wit or decency, and totally unworthy of further See also:notice." He translated from the See also:French the romances of Kynge Appolyne of Thyre (W. de Worde, 1510), The See also:History of Helyas Knyght of the Swanne (W. de Worde, 1513), and The See also:Life of Ipomydon (See also:Hue of Rotelande), not dated
.
Among his other works is The Complaynte of them that See also:ben too See also:late maryed, an undated See also:tract printed by W. de Worde
.
William Copland, the printer, supposed to have been his See also:brother, published three See also:editions of Howleglas, perhaps by See also:Robert, which in any See also:case represent the earliest English version of Till See also:Eulenspiegel
.
The Knyght of the Swanne was reprinted in Thom's See also:Early See also:Prose Romances, vol. iii., and by the Grolier See also:Club (1901); the Hye Way in W
.
C
.
See also:Hazlitt's Remains of the Early Popular See also:Poetry of See also:England, vol. iv
.
(1866)
.
See further the " Forewords " to Dr F
.
J
.
See also:Furnivall's reprint of Jyl of Breyntford (for private circulation, 1871) and J
.
P
.
See also:Collier, See also:Bibliographical and See also:Critical See also:Account of the Rarest Books in the English See also:Language, vol. i. p
.
153 (1865)
.
For the books issued from his See also:press see See also:Hand-Lists of English Printers (1501—1556), printed for the Bibliographical Society in 1896
.
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