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William Caxton

Chapter 1: WILLIAM CAXTON
By E. Gordon Duff
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An account of the life and work of the first English printer, concentrating on his printing career rather than personal biography. It traces early years, establishment of presses in Bruges and Westminster, year-by-year activity in the 1480s and his death, and includes a technical appendix of bibliographical details. The author examines individual editions, type-faces, woodcuts, colophons and binding evidence, reproducing facsimile plates and discussing how the press issued English-language literature rather than classical texts. Occasional quotations from the printer's prefaces illuminate character, while comparisons with earlier scholarship note corrections and new findings.

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Title: William Caxton

Author: E. Gordon Duff

Release date: November 8, 2017 [eBook #55919]
Most recently updated: October 23, 2024

Language: English

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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WILLIAM CAXTON ***

The Publication Committee of the Caxton Club certifies that this is one of an edition of two hundred and fifty-two copies printed on American hand-made paper, of which two hundred and forty are for sale, and three copies printed on Japanese vellum. The printing was done from type which has been distributed.

This is also one of one hundred and forty-eight copies into which has been incorporated a leaf from an imperfect copy of the first edition of Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales," printed by William Caxton, and formerly in Lord Ashburnham's library, having been purchased for this purpose by the Caxton Club. The copies so treated comprise the three Japanese vellum copies and one hundred and forty-five of the American hand-made paper copies; all of the latter are for sale.

WILLIAM CAXTON

BINDING WITH CAXTON'S DIES

(Frontispiece, and see page 85)]