The bibliographer E. Gordon Duff reconstructs what is known of William Caxton: his early life as a mercer, his years in the Low Countries, the press he set up at Bruges and the Westminster press that produced the first books printed in England. He traces the output year by year, from translations of French romances to The Order of Chivalry, up to Caxton’s death.
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