Playe

In the same year, 1474, that Duke Federico received the Order of the Garter from the king of England, William Caxton's Playe of the Chesse, the second book mechanically printed in English, was dedicated to Prince George, the king's eldest brother.

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

The colophon of the first edition of Playe of the Chesse reads: "Fynyfshid the last day of marche the yer of our lord god. a thousand foure honderd and lxxiiii."

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

I worked briefly for Langlois in 1961 during the year in Paris that changed my life forever, and like Mr. Demme, I knew and admired Truffaut and still consider Shoot the Piano Playe r (1960) with Charles Aznavour to be Truffaut's finest film.

What's the Fuss About Remakes? The Truth About Charlie Is a Lark 2002

"Here begynneth a Treatyse how the Hye Fader of Heven sendeth Dethe to somon every creature to come & gyve a count of theyr lyves in this worlde, & is in maner of a Morall Playe."

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859 Various

"Treatise on Playe," written about 1597, Nugæ Antiquæ, vol.i. p. 220.

Notes and Queries, Number 63, January 11, 1851 Various

At length, when he was more than sixty years old, he returned to England; and, in 1474, he printed what is supposed to be the first book printed in England, "The Game and Playe of the Chesse."

English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Henry Coppee

Bumme (ye same wch hath beene heare before) wth ye Scrypte of a Playe, dubbed Roumio ande Julia.

Mince Pie Christopher Morley 1923

_The Game and Playe of the Chess Moralised_, translated by Caxton, a small folio of 74 leaves.

A Short History of English Printing, 1476-1898 Henry R. Plomer 1901

¶ Playe not Iacke maleperte, _tha_t ys to say, be ware of presumpc_i_on, be ware of pryde; 492 take not _th_e first place, my child, by _th_e waye; till [e] oder be sette, ryght manerly a-byde, presumtvous be ofte sette a-syde

Caxton's Book of Curtesye Frederick James Furnivall 1867

His Recuyell and The Game and Playe of Chesse had already been printed — the first books in English — on the Continent.

A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature 1853