Here begynneth the volume intituled and named the recuyell of the historyes of Troye / composed and drawen out of dyuerce bookes of latyn in to frensshe by the ryght venerable persone and worshipfull man, Raoul le ffeure, preest and chapelayn vnto the ryght noble gloryous and myghty prynce in his tyme Phelip duc of Bourgoyne of Braband [et]c in the yere of the incarnacion of our lord god a thousand foure honderd sixty and foure, and translated and drawen out of frenshe in to englisshe by Willyam Caxton mercer of ye cyte of London, at the comau[n]deme[n]t of the right hye myghty and vertuouse pryncesse hys redoubtyd lady. Margarete by the grace of god, Duchesse of Bourgoyne of Lotryk of Braband [et]c., whiche sayd translacion and werke was ... fynysshid in the holy cyte of Colen the. xix. day of septembre the yere of our sayd lord god a thousand foure honderd sixty and enleuen [sic] [et]c. ...Lefèvre, Raoul, active 1460.[A]3r text begins: and zeland and thus whan alle thyse thynges cam ..A translation of: Recueil des histoires de Troye.Approx. [350] leaves missing.Binder's stamp: Bound by F. Bedford.Bookplates: Charles J. Rosenbloom; A. Edward Newton; John Van Schaick Lansing Pruyn. Tipped in is an A.L.S. from Seymour de Ricci to A.E. Newton concerning this work.Imprint from STC and Needham; see also Lotte Hellinga, "Caxton in focus", p. 38-9, 48.In three books.Signatures: [A-O¹⁰ P⁸; A-I¹⁰ K-L⁶; A-K¹⁰].The first book printed in English and the first book printed by Caxton on his own account.The first leaf is blank.The last leaf contains 14 lines of Latin verse beginning: Pergama flere volo. fata danais data solo ...Title from ¹[A]2r, which is printed in red.text