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Printer's mark of William Caxton, 1478. A variant of the merchant's mark. William Caxton (c. 1422 – c. 1491) was an English merchant, diplomat and writer.He is thought to be the first person to introduce a printing press into England in 1476, and as a printer to be the first English retailer of printed books.
The first dated prints in England are an indulgence dating to 13 December 1476 ... The country's first printed book was the Hebrew Pentateuch, ...
Guide to the Study and Use of Reference Books (3rd ed.). American Library Association. Pollard and Redgrave (1928), Short-Title Catalogue of Books…1475-1640; Donald Wing (1945–1951), Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales and British America and of English Books Printed in Other Countries, 1641-1700
In 1476 a printing press was set up in England by William Caxton. The Italian Juan Pablos set up an imported press in Mexico City in 1539. In Riga, Nikolaus Mollyn established the first printing press in 1588. [107] The first printing press in Southeast Asia was set up in the Philippines by the Spanish in 1593. The Rev. Jose Glover intended to ...
He presented the school with its first printed textbook, the Elegantiolae, which was the first book printed at the press, and he was a printer, probably in St Albans in 1479. However, the historian Nicholas Orme, in his “Medieval Schools, From Roman Britain to Renaissance England”, states, “Books were also acquired by schools and ...
Between them, Pynson and de Worde published about two-thirds of all the books produced for the English market between 1500 and 1530. [19] In 1496, Pynson issued an edition of the works of the Roman poet Terence, the first classic printed in London. [2] In 1500, Pynson printed The Boke of Cokery, the first printed cookery book in English. [20]
Anthony Woodville (kneeling, second from left, wearing a tabard displaying his armorials) and William Caxton (dressed in black) presenting the first printed book in English (Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers) to King Edward IV and Woodville's sister Queen Elizabeth. Lambeth Palace Library, London.
The first printing of Malory's work was made by Caxton in 1485, becoming one of the first books to be ever printed in England. [24] Only two copies of this original printing are known to exist, in the collections of the Morgan Library & Museum in New York and the John Rylands Library in Manchester. [25]