A census of incunabula
This is a working list, and it contains English incunabula before 1483. We are planning to expand this list in the future. This list is in a chronological order. The edition descriptions with 'some' copy specific descriptions are highlighted in blue; the edition descriptions with copy specific descriptions to be added are highlighted in green.
| Author | Title | Other Authors | Ed/iss | Place | Printer | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bartholomaeus Anglicus | De proprietatibus rerum | [Cologne] | [Printer of the 'Flores Sancti Augustini' (Johann Schilling), for William Caxton] | [about 1471] | ||
| Burlaeus, Gualtherus | De vita et moribus philosophorum (with the lives of Petrarch & Boethius, and Dicta philosophorum) | [Cologne] | Printer of the 'Flores Sancti Augustini' (Johann Schilling), for William Caxton] | [about 1472] | ||
| Gesta Romanorum | [Cologne] | Printer of the 'Flores Sancti Augustini' (Johann Schilling), for William Caxton] | [1472] | |||
| Lefèvre, Raoul | Recuyell of the historyes of Troye | Caxton, William | [Ghent?; also recorded as Bruges] | David Aubert? for William Caxton | [1473-74] | |
| Alliaco, Petrus de | Meditationes circa psalmos poenitentiales [French] Les sept degrés de l'échelle | [Ghent?; also recorded as Bruges] | [Colard Mansion; or David Aubert for William Caxton] | [between 1473/74 and 1476] | ||
| Cessolis, Jacobus de | The play of chess | Caxton, William (from from the French of Jean de Vignay) | [Ghent?; also recorded as Bruges] | [David Aubert? for William Caxton] | 31 Mar. 1474 | |
| Lefèvre, Raoul | Le Recueil des histoires de Troyes | [Bruges] | [Caxton, William] | [about 1474] | ||
| Cordiale quattuor novissimorum [French] Les quattres choses derrenieres | Miélot, Jean | [Bruges] | [Caxton, William] | [1475-76] | ||
| Horae: ad usum Sarum (Salisbury) | [Bruges] | [Caxton, William] | [about 1475-76] | |||
| Cato, Dionysius | Disticha de moribus [English and Latin] | Burgh, Benedict | [Westminster] | [Caxton, William] | [about 1476] | |
| Chaucer, Geoffrey | The Canterbury Tales | 1st | [Westminster] | [Caxton, William] | [about 1476-77] | |
| Infantia Salvatoris | [Westminster] | [Caxton, William] | [about 1476-77] | |||
| Lefèvre, Raoul | L'histoire de Jason: Fais et prouesses du chevalier Jason | [Ghent?; also recorded as Bruges] | [David Aubert?; also recorded as William Caxton] | [about 1476] | ||
| Lydgate, John | The Churl and the Bird | [Westminster] | [Caxton, William] | [1476] | ||
| Lydgate, John | The Churl and the Bird | [Westminster] | [Caxton, William] | [about 1476-77] | ||
| Lydgate, John | The Horse, the Sheep, and the Goose | [Westminster] | [Caxton, William] | [about 1476] | ||
| Lydgate, John | The Horse, the Sheep, and the Goose | [Westminster] | [Caxton, William] | [about 1476-77] | ||
| Lydgate, John | Stans puer ad mensam | [Westminster] | [Caxton, William] | [about 1476] | ||
| Lydgate, John | The Temple of Glass | [Westminster] | [Caxton, William] | [about 1476-77] | ||
| Ordinale seu Pica ad usum Sarum | [Westminster] | [Caxton, William] | [about 1476-77] | |||
| Russell, John | Propositio ad Carolum ducem Burgundiae | [Westminster] | [Caxton, William] | [not after June 1476] | ||
| Sant, Johannes, Abbot of Abingdon, commissary | Indulgentia 1476. For promoting the war against the Turks | [Westminster] | [Caxton, William] | [between July and 13 Dec. 1476] | ||
| Book of courtesy | [Westminster] | [Caxton, William] | [about 1477] | |||
| Cato, Dionysius | Disticha de moribus [English and Latin] | Burgh, Benedict | [Westminster] | [Caxton, William] | [about 1477] | |
| Caxton, William | Advertisement for Sarum Pie [Ordinale ad usum Sarum] | [Westminster] | [Caxton, William] | [about 1477] | ||
| Chaucer, Geoffrey | The Parlement of Foules [and other poems] | [Westminster] | [Caxton, William] | [about 1477] | ||
| Chaucer, Geoffrey | Queen Anelida and the false Arcite | [about 1477] | ||||
| de Tignonville, Guillaume | The dictes or sayengis of the philosophres | Translated from the French Dits des philosophes by Anthony Wydeville (or Woodville), Earl Rivers | [Westminster] | Caxton, William | [1477] | |
| Horae: ad usum Sarum (Salisbury) | [Caxton, William] | [about 1477-79] | ||||
| Lefèvre, Raoul | History of Jason | Caxton, William | 1st | [Westminster] | [Caxton, William] | [1477] |
| Boethius | De consolatione philosophiae [English & Latin] | Translated by Geoffrey Chaucer (Additions by Stephanus Surigonus) | [Westminster] | [Caxton, William] | [about 1478] | |
| Christine de Pisan | Moral proverbs | Anthony Wydeville (or Woodville), Earl Rivers | [Westminster] | Caxton, William | 20 Feb. 1478 | |
| Traversanus, Laurentius Gulielmus, de Saona | Margarita eloquentiae, sive Rhetorica nova | [Westminster] | [Caxton, William] | [after 26 July 1478] | ||
| Jean Mielot | Cordiale quattuor novissimorum [English] Of the four last things | From the French of Jean Miélot, by Anthony Wydeville (or Woodville), Earl Rivers) | [Westminster] | Caxton, William | 24 Mach 1479 | |
| Chronicles of England [English]. | 1st edn | [Westminster] | Caxton, William | 1480 | ||
| Ranulphus Higden | Add: Higden: The description of England | Appendage to 1st edn of chronicles of england | [Westminster] | Caxton, William | 1480 | |
| de Tignonville, Guillaume | The dictes or sayengis of the philosophres | Translated from the French Dits des philosophes, by Anthony Wydeville (or Woodville), Earl Rivers | 2nd | [Westminster] | Caxton, William | "18 Nov. 1477" [i.e. 1480] |
| Kendale, John, Commissary | Indulgence for the Knights of Rhodes. Singular issue | [Westminster] | [Caxton, William] | 1480 [before 31 March] | ||
| Kendale, John, Commissary | Indulgence for the Knights of Rhodes. Plural issue | [Westminster] | [Caxton, William] | [1480, after 9 August] | ||
| Kendale, John, Commissary | Indulgence for the Knights of Rhodes. Singular issue | [Westminster] | [1480, after 9 August] | |||
| Festum Visitationis Beatae Mariae Virginis | [Westminster] | Caxton, William | [1480] | |||
| Ponyngs, Edward, John Kendale, John Lynton, proctors | Indulgence for the Hospital of St. Mary Rounceval, Charing Cross. Letter of confraternity. Plural issue | [Westminster] | [Caxton, William] | [about 1480] | ||
| Traversanus, Laurentius Gulielmus, de Saona | Epitome Margaritae Eloquentiae | [1480, after 21 Jan.] | ||||
| Vocabularius [French and English] | Westminster | [William Caxton] | [1480] | |||
| Cicero, Marcus Tullius | Of Old Age. Add: Laelius, sive de amicitia. Bonaccursius de Montemagno: De nobilitate | Cato maior, sive de senectute translated by Stephen Scrope, revised by William Worcester; De amicitia and De nobilitate translated by John Tiptoft, earl of Worcester | [Westminster] | Caxton, William | 12 August 1481 | |
| Heraclius | Godefrey of Boloyne, or The siege and conquest of Jerusalem, or Eracles. | Translated by William Caxton | 1st edn | Westminster | Caxton, William | 20 November 1481 |
| Indulgentia 1481. For promoting the war against the Turks. Singular issue | [Westminster] | [Caxton, William] | 1481 | |||
| Johannes de Gigliis, commissary | Indulgentia 1481. For promoting the war against the Turks. Plural issue | [Westminster] | [Caxton, William] | [after 25 Aug.] 1481 | ||
| Myrrour of the worlde | Caxton, William | [Westminster] | [Caxton, William] | [after 12 August 1481] | ||
| Psalterium cum canticis | [Westminster] | [Caxton, William] | [before 20 November 1481] | |||
| The historye of Reynart the foxe | Caxton, William | [Westminster] | [Caxton, William] | [after 6 June 1481] | ||
| Chronicles of England | Westminster | Caxton, William | 8 October 1482 | |||
| Higden, Ranulphus | Polycronicon. With the continuation 1357-1460 by William Caxton | Trevisa, John | [Westminster] | Caxton, William | [between 2 July and 8 October 1482] | |
| Quattuor Sermones [English] | Westminster | Caxton, William | [1482-83] | |||
| Cato, Dionysius | Disticha de moribus [English and Latin] | Tr: from the French by William Caxton. With a paraphrase and commentary | [Westminster] | [Caxton, William] | [after 23 December 1483] | |
| Cato, Dionysius | Disticha de moribus [English and Latin] | Burgh, Benedict | [Westminster] | [Caxton, William] | [1483] | |
| de Cessolis, Jacobus | De ludo scachorum; The play of chess | Translated by William Caxton, from the French of Jean de Vignay | 2nd edn | [Westminster] | Caxton, William | [1483] |
| Chartier, Alain | Le Curial | Caxton, William | 1st edn | [Westminster] | Caxton, William | [1483] |
| Chaucer, Geoffrey | The book of fame | 1st edn | [Westminster] | Caxton, William | [1483] | |
| Chaucer, Geoffrey | The Canterbury Tales | 2nd edn | [Westminster] | Caxton, William | [1483] | |
| Chaucer, Geoffrey | Troilus and Criseyde | [Westminster] | Caxton, William | [1483] | ||
| De curia Sapientiae [English] The court of sapience | 1st | [Westminster] | [Caxton, William] | [1483] | ||
| Gower, John | Confessio amantis | 1st | Westminster | Caxton, William | 2 Sept. 14[8]3 | |
| Guillaume de Digulleville | Le pèlerinage de l'&aciric;me [English] The pylgremage of the sowle | Translated and emended by John Lydgate | Westminster | Caxton, William | 6 June 1483 | |
| Voragine, Jacobus de | Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia [English] The Golden Legend | Caxton, William | two issues | Westminster | Caxton, William | [between 20 Nov. 1483 and Mar. 1484] |
| Lydgate, John | The Life of Our Lady | [Westminster] | Caxton, William | [1483] | ||
| Mirk, John | Liber festivalis [English] | Westminster | Caxton, William | 30 June 1483 |