PREFACE
When I was asked to write a Life of William Caxton for the Roadmaker Series, it seemed to me to offer an opportunity for dealing with the subject from an entirely new standpoint

In the Prologue to the first book Caxton printed, The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troy, he has left it on record that he was born in the Weald of Kent, where the dialect was as "brode and rude" as in any part of England.