Caxton alone, had he been so minded, could have filled a child’s library; for besides his _Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye_, he printed Sir Thomas Malory’s _Noble Histories of King Arthur_ with many romances of his own translating and legends and lives of Saints. He was actually the first printer and editor of the very books which Locke, in the eighteenth century, prescribed for children: Æsop’s _Fables_ and _The History of Reynard the Fox_; but Caxton intended none of these for children. The _Fables_ showed men their follies; and _Reynard_ was then a satire that ridiculed unjust rulers under the figures of beasts. For children, he chose the kind of books that their parents would buy: the instructive _Parvus et Magnus Chato_, with its woodcut print of a monastery school; _Stans Puer ad Mensam_, a museum of quaint formalities, and _The Book of Courtesy_, addressed to “Lytyl John” in “tendre enfancye”.