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.