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William Caxton and early printing in England /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hellinga, Lotte
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : British Library, 2010.
Subjects:
Caxton, William, > approximately 1422-1491 or 1492.
Printing > England > History > To 1500.
Printing > England > History > Origin and antecedents.
Publishers and publishing > England > History > To 1500.
Table of Contents:
  • Before Caxton
  • Caxton in Bruges : merchant and diplomat
  • Caxton and Margaret of York, Duchess of Burgundy : his first translation
  • Caxton in Cologne (1471-2)
  • Caxton's plan for a printing house
  • The first books printed in English : a tale of the known and the unknown
  • Caxton and his patrons in Westminster
  • Books multiplied : Caxton's publications until 1486
  • Printing in oxford (1478-83)
  • The first printers in London (1480-c. 1486)
  • The press at St. Albans (1479-81, 1486)
  • Caxton's final years (1487-92)
  • Standing abasshed : between patrons and readers
  • Richard Pynson : the canny entrepreneur (1491-1529)
  • Wynkyn de Worde : taking over Caxton's firm (1492-6)
  • Wynkyn de Worde's career as independent publisher (1497-1535)
  • Printing devotional texts in English
  • Contemporaries outside the mainstream.