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...that Exit "might make sexual activity of any kind repugnant." Publisher Marion Boyars called Exit "a sad book, a true book" and "too American" to sell. As for gain, she said, her firm had sold 11,247 copies and netted only $3,315.20. Appearing for the prosecution, Dr. Ernest Caxton, an authority on homosexuality, called the book an "extremely dangerous" guide to homosexual experimentation. Book Publisher (Pergamon Press) Robert Maxwell, a Labor M.P., blasted it as "sociological material with filth and muck just added for profit...
...believed to be the first book with English illustrations ever prepared for printing. They formed the first nine books of a translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Books 10 through 15, unillustrated, were given to Cambridge University by Diarist Samuel Pepys 278 years ago. Put together by William Caxton, the 15th century Englishman who first set English in movable type, the first half of the Ovid manuscript brought a record auction price of $252,000 at Sotheby's last week from Lew Feldman, a rare-book dealer in New York, who has recently picked up such prizes...
...Caxton's version was designed to include a half-page illustration for each of the 15 books. Only four of these miniatures were actually completed. Stylistically, the woodcuts appear to be of Flemish inspiration, although they were conceived and executed in England. The manuscript may never have been published by Caxton's London press at the Sign of the Red Pale. In fact, the printer had to work hard to keep it from being proscribed as the product of a pagan. Ovid was a Roman, but Caxton illustrated the book with the ancient poet praying, described as "atte...
METROPOLITAN-Fifth Ave. at 82nd. The Met delved into its vast print collection and found some 50 versions of Aesop's Fables. They go back to 1484, when William Caxton did the first English edition...
...Indian army officer, he was "a nostalgic Tory" who had little sympathy for Sir Grummore Grummurson, as he called Colonel Blimp's Arthurian ancestor. White did not lament the decline of empire so much as the withering of English virtues commended by 15th century Printer William Caxton: "Chyvalrye, curtoyse, humanyte, frendlynesse, hardynesse, love." In an age that celebrates the antihero, the neurotic, the schemer, Tim White argued that morality was something worth striving for. His conviction that justice rather than force must govern all human relationships seems even more relevant than in Arthur's days...