Whan I remembre and take hede of the conuersacion of vs that lyue in this wretched lyf .
Contributors: Caxton, William, approximately 1422-1491 or 1492
Publisher: William Caxton
Published: 1486
Place of publication: Westminster
Language: eng
Number of pages: 162
Subjects: Virtues; Vices
Other titles: Ryal book.; Book for a kyng.; Royal book.
Work titles: Somme le Roi
Notes: Colophon: This book was compyled & made atte requeste of kyng Phelyp of Fraunce in the yere of thyncarnacyon of our lord, M.CC.lxxix. & translated or reduced out of frensshe in to englysshe by me Wyllyam Caxton.atte requeste of a worshipful merchaunt & mercer of london [i.e. William  Pratt?] ... whiche translacion or reducyng oute of frensshe in to englysshe was achyeued. fynysshed & accomplysshed the xxiij day of Septembre in the yere of thyncarnacyon of our lord. M,CCCC.lxxxiiij, and in the second yere of the regne of Kyng Rychard the thyrd.

Signatures: a-t⁸ u¹° (a1, u10 blank)

"Reduced into Englisshe" from a book "entytled [and] named in Frensshe Le lyure royal, whiche is to say in Englisshe The ryal book or A book for a kyng ..."--Pref.

Translation "by me Wyllyam Caxton ... achyeued, fynysshed   [and] accomplysshed the xiij of Septembre in the yere ... M/CCCC.lxxxiiij"--   Colophon.

One of the woodcut illustrations (Hodnett 251) is also found in  Caxton's edition of the Legenda aurea; the other six (Hodnett 318, 322-23, 330,332-33) are also found in his first edition of the Speculum vitae Christi.

For imprint date, see N.F. Blake, Caxton, p. 150 and G.D. Painter, William Caxton, p. 154-156.

Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, I:139.

Hain 14049.

Hain-Copinger 3691.

Copinger 3514.

Proctor 9671.

Goff L-91.

ISTC (CD-ROM, 1998 ed.) il00091000.

Walsh, J.E.  15th cent. printed books, 3991-3992.

STC (2nd ed.) 21429.