Caxton
[kækstәn]
Definition
(noun.) English printer who in 1474 printed the first book in English (1422-1491).
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Definition
(n.) Any book printed by William Caxton, the first English printer.
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Definition
n. a book printed by William Caxton (1422-91) the first English printer: a kind of printing-type in imitation of Caxton's.
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Examples
- William Caxton, an English merchant, learned the new art while he was traveling in Germany, and when he returned home started a press at Westminster with a partner named Wynken de Worde. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- About 1474 Caxton was printing his black-letter books in England. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- There were printers in Italy by 1465, and Caxton set up his press in Westminster in 1477. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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