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    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...
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    around 1470 and was first published in a printed edition in 1485 by William Caxton. Until the discovery of the Winchester Manuscript in 1934, the 1485...
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  • written language and a shift to secular writing. In the late 15th century William Caxton printed four-fifths of his works in English, which helped to standardize...
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    assistant of the first English printer and book publisher, William Caxton.[citation needed] Caxton's assistant was named "Deville", which evolved to "devil"...
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  • (printed by William Caxton in Westminster) William Caxton (translation from the French of Raoul Le Fèvre) – History of Jason (printed by Caxton) Bible in...
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    work was the collection made out of Caxton's 1476-8 productions, known since the time of Caxton scholar William Blades as “the volume purchased by King...
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    about the saints. It was one of the first books William Caxton printed in the English language; Caxton's version appeared in 1483 and his translation was...
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  • Caxton may refer to: Caxton Street, Brisbane, Australia Caxton, Cambridgeshire, a village in Cambridgeshire, UK Caxton Gibbet, a knoll near the village...
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    City of Westminster in 1900. It was renamed Caxton Hall at that time to commemorate the printer, William Caxton, who had worked in the almonry of Westminster...
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    filming and they are open to the public. The Lyme Caxton Missal, an early printed book by William Caxton, is on display in the Library. The land now occupied...
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    Troye or Recueil des Histoires de Troye (1464) is a translation by William Caxton of a French courtly romance written by Raoul Lefèvre, chaplain to Philip...
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    Principia Mathematica, Hortus Eystettensis, Geographia Cosmographia and William Caxton's English translation of Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye have also...
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    meetings in the Hospital of St. Thomas of Acon on Cheapside. Around 1438 William Caxton was apprenticed into the Mercers, under Robert Large, becoming a full...
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  • version of Le Morte d'Arthur was published by the famed London printer William Caxton in 1485. Much of Malory's life history is obscure, but he identified...
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  • Caxton and CTP Publishers and Printers (JSE: CAT) is a South African newspaper company. The company was founded in 1902 by William Gindra and Edward Green...
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    printer, William Caxton, was responsible for the first two folio editions of The Canterbury Tales which were published in 1478 and 1483. Caxton's second...
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    Numerous English translations of the work have been made, the first by William Caxton in 1480. Ovid's relation to the Hellenistic poets was similar to the...
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  • Chaucer, G., Caxton, W., Caxton Club. (1905). William Caxton. Chicago: The Caxton Club. Gordon Goodwin (1887). "Duff, William". In Dictionary of National...
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  • hys beauteuous volumes/and aournate writynges — Mayer, p. 123, William Caxton Caxton wanted to discard "old bookes" that were characteristic of medieval...
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    earlier French translation. His translation would come to be printed by William Caxton in 1477 as either the first, or one of the earliest, books printed in...
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    reason for this was that ⟨y⟩ existed in the blackletter types that William Caxton and his contemporaries imported from Belgium and the Netherlands, while...
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  • Movement. The club's name honors the fifteenth-century English printer William Caxton. The founders included John Vance Cheney, Edward E. Ayer, Martin A....
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    and he answered "that when they speak truth they are not believed". William Caxton similarly closes his version with the remark that "men bileve not lyghtly...
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    Rivers had met the earliest English printer William Caxton when in exile in Bruges, and there in 1475–76 Caxton published Cordyale, or Four last thinges...
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    major reason for this was that ⟨y⟩ existed in the printer's types that William Caxton and his contemporaries imported from Belgium and the Netherlands, while...
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    1534) was a printer and publisher in London known for his work with William Caxton, and is recognised as the first to popularise the products of the printing...
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    building and a Grade II* registered garden. Reputedly the birthplace of William Caxton, the house was later the home of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson...
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    The Game and Playe of Chesse is a book by William Caxton, the first English printer. Published in the 1470s, it is one of the earliest titles published...
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    in 1506. She was buried in the Church of the Cordeliers in Mechelen. William Caxton, who introduced the new art of printing into the Kingdom of England...
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  • Caxton Press (formerly known as Caxton Printers, a division of its parent company, The Caxton Printers Ltd.) is a book publisher located in Caldwell,...
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