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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 COPLAND (fi. 1515)  ,
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English printer and author, is said to have been a servant of William Caxton, and certainly worked for Wynkyn de Worde . The first
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book to which his name is affixed as a printer is The Bake of Justices of Peace (1515), at the sign of the Rose Garland, in
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Fleet Street,
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London . Anthony a Wood supposed, on the ground that he was more educated than was usual in his trade, that he had been a poor scholar of Oxford . His best known
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works are The hye way to the Spy/tell hous, a
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dialogue in verse between Copland and the porter of St Bartholomew's hospital, containing much information about the vagabonds who found their way there; and Jyl of Breyntfords Testament, dismissed in Athenae Oxonienses (ed . Bliss) as " a poem devoid of wit or decency, and totally unworthy of further
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notice." He translated from the French the romances of Kynge Appolyne of Thyre (W. de Worde, 1510), The
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History of Helyas Knyght of the Swanne (W. de Worde, 1513), and The
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Life of Ipomydon (
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Hue of Rotelande), not dated . Among his other works is The Complaynte of them that ben too
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late maryed, an undated tract printed by W. de Worde . William Copland, the printer, supposed to have been his
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brother, published three
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editions of Howleglas, perhaps by Robert, which in any case represent the earliest English version of Till Eulenspiegel . The Knyght of the Swanne was reprinted in Thom's Early
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Prose Romances, vol. iii., and by the Grolier Club (1901); the Hye Way in W . C . Hazlitt's Remains of the Early Popular
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Poetry of 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 . Collier, Bibliographical and Critical Account of the Rarest Books in the English Language, vol. i. p . 153 (1865) . For the books issued from his press see Hand-Lists of English Printers (1501—1556), printed for the Bibliographical Society in 1896 .

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