Legenda Aurea, or The Golde Legend, by Jacobus de Voragine (c. 1230-98) is a collection of legendary lives of saints (originally in Latin) compiled around 1260, and is one of the most widely-read religious works throughout the Middle Ages.
In England, its French translation, Le Légende Dorée, was translated into Middle English in the first half of the fifteenth century (it is known as Gilte Legende), while William Caxton (c. 1422-c. 1491), the first printer in England, also translated and published it in 1483. As it was so popular a work, it kept being printed after the death of Caxton by his successor, Wynkyn de Worde (d. c. 1534), and it went through nine editions.
The above is a leaf probably from the ninth edition printed and published by Wynkyn de Worde in 1527. It includes the last part of 'The Lyfe of Saynt Cyryake' and the beginning of 'The Lyfe of Saynt Laurence' with a miniature of the saint. I have another leaf from the ninth edition, but it does not contain any illustrations and is less attractive.
Wynkyn de Worde, German by birth, moved to England to work for William Caxton, and took over his business after his death. While Caxton tended to publish expensive high-quality books for his noble and wealthy patrons, de Worde also published relatively inexpensive books for wider readership; he published more than 400 books in more than 800 editions, while Caxton published 108 books in total. This may well have been one of the reasons why he moved his firm from Caxton's location in Westminster to Fleet Street, near the city centre, where he could find more and wider-range customers. He was the first to establish a printing firm in Fleet Street, which later became known for printing and publishing, and he is entitled 'Father of Fleet Street' on the plaque marking the location of his firm.
De Worde is known as the first printer using italic type in England, but it seems that the earliest example is found in a book published in 1528, a year after the publication of the ninth edition of The Golden Legend, and so my leaf is just a bit too early to contain an example of it.