The biography and typography of William Caxton, England's first printer (Registro nro. 119372)
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| LC control number | 09024383 |
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
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| Classification number | Z |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Blades, William, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1824-1890 |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The biography and typography of William Caxton, England's first printer |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | Second edition. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2026 |
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| Extent | 1 online resource : |
| Other physical details | multiple file formats |
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| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
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| Media type term | computer |
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| Carrier type term | online resource |
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| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Release date is 2026-05-11 |
| 508 ## - CREATION/PRODUCTION CREDITS NOTE | |
| Creation/production credits note | deaurider, Terry Jeffress, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) Last Edit of Project Info |
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| Summary, etc. | "The biography and typography of William Caxton, England's first printer" by Blades is a historical and bibliographical study written in the late 19th century. It charts Caxton’s life and career alongside a meticulous analysis of his printed output, types, devices, and working methods, situating him within the rise of printing in England and the Low Countries. Drawing on company records, embassies, and court circles, it follows Caxton from Kentish origins through mercantile Bruges to Westminster, while also cataloguing his editions and discussing their rarity and features.<br/><br/>The opening of the volume sets the scope: a revised reprint that condenses earlier scholarship and adds notes on Caxton’s printer’s device and punctuation, while underscoring printing’s civilizational impact. It then outlines the plan—first a documentary life of Caxton, then detailed descriptions of his books by type, with appendices from Mercers’ and Bruges records. The narrative begins with Caxton’s birth in the Weald of Kent amid strong Flemish influence, a dialect anecdote about “eyren/eggs,” and a sober weighing of name variants to suggest a likely Causton connection. It proceeds to his 1438 apprenticeship to the wealthy mercer Robert Large, depicting London apprentice life, Large’s household and will, and vivid city scenes—dearth, pageantry, religious persecution, and civic unrest—culminating in Caxton’s departure abroad. In Bruges he emerges as a prosperous merchant, then Governor of the English Nation (Merchant Adventurers), mediating trade disputes, enforcing measures, and corresponding with London while treaties lapsed and were renewed; he begins translating the Recuyell under Duchess Margaret’s patronage and likely moves toward printing with Colard Mansion. A broad survey follows of 15th‑century bibliophilia—royal and ducal libraries in France and Burgundy, Louis de Bruges’s collection, English patrons—and of the book trades’ guild structure at Bruges and Antwerp. Finally, an initial technical chapter contrasts manuscripts and early print, explaining materials, binding habits, blank leaves, one‑page printing, signatures, hand‑painted initials, undated colophons, and typeforms that closely imitated contemporary handwriting. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | New York: Scribner and Welford, 1882 |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Caxton, William, approximately 1422-1491 or 1492 |
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| Uncontrolled term | Printing -- England -- London -- History -- Origin and antecedents |
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| Uncontrolled term | Incunabula -- England -- London -- Bibliography |
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| Uncontrolled term | Printers -- Great Britain -- Biography |
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| Uncontrolled term | Westminster (London, England) -- Imprints |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://archive.org/details/biographytypogra00blad">https://archive.org/details/biographytypogra00blad</a> |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78654">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78654</a> |
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