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Taranaki Daily News, 4 September 1926, Page 6

In a rubbish heap at Colchester was was recently found an excellent example of Caxton’s handiwork, supposed to nave been removed from Castle Museum during the air raid menace. The work, a fine copy of the Boethius “De Consolations Philosophiae,” consisting of 93 pages, dates back to 147’8. For 150 year's it bad been in the Castle library when, during the war, it was taken, for greater safety, to Birch Hall, near Colchester. The original custodian died nine years ago, and his brother, who also knew of the hiding-place of the manuscript, also died during ths war. Other members of the family generally understood that the copy was somewhere in the hall, and many fruitless searches were made. The library of the Hall was disposed of four years ago, but the Caxton was not among the volumes sold, or it could hardly have escaped notice. In the past few weeks a further search wae carried out, and, wrapped in brown paper and lying amid the dust and refuse of the cellar, "was discovered the beautiful (specimen of the great printer’s work.