William Caxton: England's First Printer

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Let’s take a look at the life and legacy of William Caxton...

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Engraving of William Caxton by and English printer (1816). Held by the Granger Collection.

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Coat of arms of the Worshipful Company of Mercers. Blazon of arms confirmed to the Company in 1911: Gules, issuant from a bank of clouds a figure of the Virgin couped at the shoulders proper vested in a crimson robe adorned with gold, the neck encircled by a jeweled necklace crined or and wreathed about the temples with a chaplet of roses alternately argent and of the first, and crowned with a celestial crown, the whole within a bordure of clouds also proper.

Civitas Londinium, Agas' Map of London, c. 1570-1605. From Maps of Old London, London, Adam and Charles Black, 1908. Scanned & corrected Mike Calder.

Map of Europe.

Plucking the Red and White Roses in the Old Temple Gardens. This is a photograph of the mural installed in the East Corridor of the Palace of Westminster, presented by Earl Beauchamp (c.1908).

Raoul Lefèvre writing the Recueil des histoires de Troyes, image from a 16th-century manuscript from “département Manuscrits occidentaux cote du document FRANCAIS 252 période du document XVIème siècle date du document ou du recueil 14..-15.. partie de Recueil des histoires de Troyes. - Cognac folio, pagination Folio 1v auteur(s) Testard, Robinet (Enlumineur)”

Pages from Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye published in Bruges by Caxton in 1473-1474. Copy sold at Sotheby's in July 2014. From https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/...

Frontispiece woodcut depicting William Caxton handing two volumes of the Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye to Margaret of York (c.1474). Held by The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.

Maclise, Daniel (1909) "Caxton Showing the First Specimen of His Printing to King Edward IV at the Almonry, Westminster" in Cassell's History of England, Volume 2 (The King's Edition ed.), London, New York, Toronto & Melbourne: Cassell and Company, pp. p. 64.

Woodcut image of a printing press in action by Jost Amman (1568). From Meggs, Philip B. A History of Graphic Design. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1998. (p 64).

Illuminated and printed [LATIN BIBLE]. Biblia latina. Venice: Nicolaus Jenson, 1479. From Bridwell Library Special Collections, SMU.

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Quoted texts:

N. F. Blake, ODNB entry on William Caxton.


Also consulted, were:


Other relevant entries from The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online.

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