Category: Biographies
Amongst those men to whom belongs the honour of having introduced the art of printing into the various countries of Europe, none holds a more marked or a more important position than William Caxton. This is not the place to discuss the vexed questions, when, where, or by whom...
The exact date of Caxton's death has never been settled, but from the position of the entry in the parish accounts relating to his burial, it would appear to have taken place to...
7. CHAPTER VI.In December, 1487, Caxton issued an edition of the Sarum _Missal_, though he was not himself the printer. The work was done for him by a printer at Paris named Guillaume Maynial...
3. CHAPTER III.In 1476 Caxton returned to England and took up his residence in the precincts of Westminster Abbey, at a house with the sign of the "Red Pale" in the "almonesrye." This locality...
6. book I have dylygently oversen and duly examyned to thende that itbe made acordyng unto his owen makyng. For I fynde many of the sayd bookes whyche wryters have abrydgyd it and many thynges left out. And in somme place have sette certayn versy...
2. CHAPTER II.In what city and from what printer Caxton received his earliest training in the art of printing has been a much debated question amongst bibliographers. The only direct assertio...
1. CHAPTER I.Amongst those men to whom belongs the honour of having introduced the art of printing into the various countries of Europe, none holds a more marked or a more important position...
4. CHAPTER IV.The year 1480 saw a considerable change in Caxton's methods of printing. Hitherto he had been content to print his books without signatures, although these were generally in use...
5. CHAPTER V.The publication of the _Liber Festivalis_ on the last day of June, 1483, marks the beginning of a new group of books, for in it first appears a recasting of type No. 4 on a slig...