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001 2010681794
003 DLC
005 20130610095605.0
008 100701s2010 enka b 001 0 eng
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050 00 $aZ232.C38$bH455 2010
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100 1 $aHellinga, Lotte.
245 10 $aWilliam Caxton and early printing in England /$cLotte Hellinga.
260 $aLondon :$bBritish Library,$c2010.
300 $axi, 212 p. :$bill., (some col.) ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
505 0 $aBefore 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.
520 8 $aThis work takes a fresh approach to the first 60 years of printing in England by placing Caxton, his contemporaries and the later generations in the broad context of the history of book production between the middle of the 15th century and the Reformation.
600 10 $aCaxton, William,$dapproximately 1422-1491 or 1492.
650 0 $aPrinting$zEngland$xHistory$yTo 1500.
650 0 $aPrinting$zEngland$xHistory$xOrigin and antecedents.
650 0 $aPublishers and publishing$zEngland$xHistory$yTo 1500.