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This 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.
This book says it's about printING, but it's much more about printERS. There isn't much detail about the actual printing (e.g., while it talks about the typefounder who perhaps cut William Caxton's type, it doesn't mention the nature or size of the fonts). There is nothing wrong with that, but it wasn't what I expected from the book.
Also, I expected more about Caxton himself. His influence, the books he printed, the ways in which his early work influenced (or didn't influence) other printers.
We don't see that. What we have is more a catalog than a true examination of printing: Caxton printed some stuff, then a printer at St. Albans printed some stuff, then a printer at Oxford printed some stuff and maybe headed home.... There is no coherent feeling, no idea of where it is all heading.
There is nothing wrong with that. The writing is decent, the illustrations are well-done and often informative, there is a lot of information here. But it doesn't feel as if this book really lives up to its title. Maybe, with a different title, it would have been a more interesting book. ( )
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The crafte of Printynge... hathe ben the cause of many thynges and great chaunges, & is lyke to be the cause of many straunge thynges here after to come John Rastell, c. 1530
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Foreword Early in 2007 the eleventh volume of the Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Library was published, containing very full descriptions of books printed in England before the year 1501, in so far as represented in the national collection.
Introduction Printing was slow to come to England. By the time the first book printed in England came off a small press in an outbuilding of Westminster Abbey in mid-1476, the art of printing with movable type had been developing on the continent of Europe for about twenty years, and the new technique, perceived as almost magical, was beginning to change the world forever.
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The Act, virtually coinciding with the death of Wynkyn de Worde, was not only a controlling measure to stem a potential influx of heretical books, but also an incentive for a new generation of printers to step out of the shadows and begin a new, and more turbulent chapter in the story of printing in England.
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This 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.
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This book says it's about printING, but it's much more about printERS. There isn't much detail about the actual printing (e.g., while it talks about the typefounder who perhaps cut William Caxton's type, it doesn't mention the nature or size of the fonts). There is nothing wrong with that, but it wasn't what I expected from the book.
Also, I expected more about Caxton himself. His influence, the books he printed, the ways in which his early work influenced (or didn't influence) other printers.
We don't see that. What we have is more a catalog than a true examination of printing: Caxton printed some stuff, then a printer at St. Albans printed some stuff, then a printer at Oxford printed some stuff and maybe headed home.... There is no coherent feeling, no idea of where it is all heading.
There is nothing wrong with that. The writing is decent, the illustrations are well-done and often informative, there is a lot of information here. But it doesn't feel as if this book really lives up to its title. Maybe, with a different title, it would have been a more interesting book. (