Printed in “1486,” “on the day aftir Seint Edward the kyng”: which would
seem to be March 19, 1486/7. This book is distinguished by the
occurrence of many woodcut engravings, and by the use of a woodcut
capital G (52 times). This latter is the only woodcut letter used in the
early Oxford Press (see Bradshaw in the ©Communications© of the
Cambridge Antiquarian Society, iii. 136). In the same paper (p. 138)
Bradshaw suggests that the eleven large cuts were perhaps intended for
an edition of the Golden Legend, and that the five smaller ones belong
to a lost Oxford Primer on Horae. The text is nearer to that of Caxton’s
second issue (1491) than of his first (1483). The two sets of woodcuts
are as follows:—
_Larger kind_ (general size, about 4½ × 4½–5½ in.).
1. ( ) Woodcut of the Crucifixion, laid sideways.
1^r.
2. ( ) Woodcut of St. Christopher bearing Christ, beneath a canopy.
i^v.
3. h 5^v. Bishop under canopy, with two trees (facsimile in Dibdin’s
_Ædes Althorpianæ_).