<span>Caption: "This <i>Chronycle of Englande</i> with the "fruyte of times," a compilation of the chronicles of Nennius, Douglas of Glastonbury, and Geoffrey of Monmouth, begin with the creating of the world and ends in the region of Henry VI. It is also know as the <i>Chronicle of Brute</i>, so-called from the opening chapter dealing with the story of Albina and her twenty-eight sisters, daughters of a king in Greece, who discovered Britain and called it Albion. They consorted with Incumbi and bore a race of giants which held the island until the coming of Brut, the grandson of Aeneas, who became the first king of Britain. Two pages tell us "how Kynge Lear was driven out of his londe through his folks, and how Cordeill his youngest </span><span>doughter help hyme in his need." This story was accepted as authentic until the seventeenth century. The <i>Chronycle</i> also introduces us to the immortal King Arthur, and to Lancelot, Tristan and Perceval. The work was publicly read at the court of the Norman Kings so as to inspire the young squires with emulation. Fair ladies recited it at the bedside of wounded knights to assuage their pain. Julian Notary, who printed from the year 1498 until his death in 1520, is considered as one of the four most important early printers in England, taking his place with Caxton, De Worde, and Pynson, and this edition of the <i>Chronycle</i> is one of the most important issues from his press."Original Leaves from Famous BooksOtto F. Ege Collection</span>