Among the earlier works printed by Caxton were the Canterbury Tales, the Book of Fame, and the Troilus and Creseide of Chaucer.
CONTEMPORARY HISTORY .-- It will be remembered that this was the stormy period of the Wars of the Roses.

The long and troubled reign of Henry VI.
closed in sorrow in 1471.

The titular crown of France had been easily taken from him by Charles VII.

and Joan of Arc; and although Richard of York, the great-grandson of Edward III., had failed in his attempts upon the English throne, yet _his_ son Edward, afterward the Fourth, was successful.

Then came the patricide of Clarence, the accession and cruelties of Richard III., the battle of Bosworth, and, at length, the union of the two houses in the persons of Henry VII.