COPLAND, ROBERT (fi. 1515)

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COPLAND, ROBERT (fi. 1515) , English printer and author, is said to have been a servant of William Caxton, and certainly worked for Wynkyn de Worde. The first book to which his name is affixed as a printer is The Bake of Justices of Peace (1515), at the sign of the Rose Garland, in

Fleet

FLEET

Street, London. Anthony a

Wood

supposed, on the ground that he was more educated than was usual in his trade, that he had been a poor scholar of Oxford. His best known works are The hye way to the Spy/tell hous, a dialogue in verse between Copland and the

porter

of St Bartholomew's

hospital

, containing much information about the vagabonds who found their way there; and Jyl of Breyntfords Testament, dismissed in Athenae Oxonienses (ed. Bliss) as " a poem devoid of wit or decency, and totally unworthy of further notice." He translated from the French the romances of Kynge Appolyne of Thyre (W. de Worde, 1510), The History of Helyas Knyght of the Swanne (W. de Worde, 1513), and The Life of Ipomydon (Hue of Rotelande), not dated. Among his other works is The Complaynte of them that ben too

late

LATE

maryed, an undated tract printed by W. de Worde.
William Copland, the printer, supposed to have been his brother, published three editions of Howleglas, perhaps by Robert, which in any case represent the earliest English version of Till Eulenspiegel.
The Knyght of the Swanne was reprinted in Thom's Early

Prose

PROSE

Romances, vol. iii., and by the Grolier Club (1901); the Hye Way in W. C. Hazlitt's Remains of the Early Popular Poetry of England, vol. iv. (1866). See further the " Forewords " to Dr F. J. Furnivall's reprint of Jyl of Breyntford (for private circulation, 1871) and J. P. Collier, Bibliographical and

Critical

CRITICAL (in alphabetical order of authors)

Account of the Rarest Books in the English Language, vol. i. p. 153 (1865). For the books issued from his press see Hand-Lists of English Printers (15011556), printed for the Bibliographical Society in 1896.

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