A transcription of Mirrour of the World, an early English translation by William Caxton from the French L'Image du monde by Gossuin de Metz, with an with introduction and notes by O.H. Prior. Caxton's translation was based on British Library, Royal MS 19 A IX.

Caxton's Mirrour has a double claim to the notice of all book-lovers and students of mediaeval literature: it is the first work printed in England with illustrations, and one of the earliest encyclopaedias in the English language. As Caxton himself tells us in his introduction, the Mirrour was translated in 1480 from the French... - [Prior]

A facsimile of the 1481 edition of Caxton's translation is available.

Language: English