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Life: |
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c.1421 |
born in the Weald of Kent |
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1438-41 |
apprentice to Robert Large, a London cloth merchant |
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1441-69 |
lived in Bruges, became prosperous merchant in the Low Countries |
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1463 |
Governor of the English merchants in Flandres |
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1469 |
secretary to Margaret Duchess of Burgundy, sister of Edward IV |
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1471 |
saw a printing press in Cologne |
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1476 |
returns to England, sets up his press in the precincts of Westminster Abbey |
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1491 |
Caxton dies in Westminster |
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Work: |
A Selection of popular titles: |
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1474 |
The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye |
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1475 |
The Game and Playe of the Chesse |
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1477 |
The Dictes and Sayinges of the Philosophres |
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1477 |
The History of Jason |
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1481 |
Reynard the Fox |
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1483 |
The Golden Legend; John Gower's Confessio Amantis |
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1484 |
Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur |
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1485 |
Aesop |
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1490 |
Eneydos |
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Among other authors Caxton printed six volumes of Chaucer, seven works of Lydgate, and many more. |
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