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ROBERT COPLAND (fi. 1515)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 101 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ROBERT See also:COPLAND (fi. 1515)  , See also:English printer and author, is said to have been a servant of See also: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 . 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 .

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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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