The Bloods is widely known.
Robert Copland -LRB- fl .. 1508-1547 -RRB- , English printer and author , is said to have been a servant of William Caxton , and certainly worked for Wynkyn de Worde .. printer. Printer ( publisher ). William Caxton. William Caxton. Wynkyn de Worde. Wynkyn de Worde. The first book to which his name is affixed as a printer is The Boke of Justices of Peace -LRB- 1515 -RRB- , at the sign of the Rose Garland , in Fleet Street , London .. printer. Printer ( publisher ). Fleet Street. Fleet Street. 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 .. Anthony a Wood. Anthony a Wood. Oxford. university of Oxford. His best known works are The hye way to the Spytell 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 , including Thieves ' Cant ; and Jyl of Breyntford 's Testament , dismissed in Athenae Oxonienses -LRB- ed .. Athenae Oxonienses. Athenae Oxonienses. Bliss -RRB- 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 -LRB- W. de Worde , 1510 -RRB- , The History of Helyas Knyght of the Swanne -LRB- W. de Worde , 1512 , 1522 -RRB- , and The Life of Ipomydon -LRB- Hue de Rotelande -RRB- , not dated .. The History of Helyas Knyght of the Swanne. Knight of the Swan. Hue de Rotelande. Hue de Rotelande. Among his other works is The Complaynte of them that ben too late maryed , an undated tract printed by Wynkyn de Worde .. Wynkyn de Worde. Wynkyn 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 .. printer. Printer ( publisher ). Till Eulenspiegel. Till Eulenspiegel. The Knyght of the Swanne was reprinted by W. Copland possibly in 1560 , in William John Thoms 's Early Prose Romances , vol .. William John Thoms. William John Thoms. iii , and by the Grolier Club -LRB- 1901 -RRB- ; the Hye Way in William Carew Hazlitt 's Remains of the Early Popular Poetry of England , vol .. Grolier Club. Grolier Club. William Carew Hazlitt. William Carew Hazlitt. iv -LRB- 1866 -RRB- .. See further the Forewords to Frederick James Furnivall 's reprint of Jyl of Breyntford -LRB- for private circulation , 1871 -RRB- and John Payne Collier , Bibliographical and Critical Account of the Rarest Books in the English Language , vol .. Frederick James Furnivall. Frederick James Furnivall. John Payne Collier. John Payne Collier. 1 p. 153 -LRB- 1865 -RRB- .. For the books issued from his press see Hand-Lists of English Printers -LRB- 1501 -- 1556 -RRB- , printed for the Bibliographical Society in 1896 .