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"""William Caxton and other Early Printers in England"" takes a fresh approach to the first sixty 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 fifteenth century and the Reformation. Printing and publishing in England soon developed a unique character of its own, although many of the early printers in England, Caxton included, had experience of the nascent printing industry on the Continent before moving to England. Diverse continental contacts and influences can be perceived throughout the period. Although written and amply illustrated with general readers in mind, the book also presents specialists with new research, analysis and insights."

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"""The great success of William Caxton and Early Printing in England is that its concessions to the general reader extend an invitation into an exciting world of research in progress, where much still remains to be discovered. . . . There is much here for anyone interested in the literature and culture of the years between the medieval and early modern periods, fittingly enhanced by striking illustrations which suggest something of the variousness of early printed books, and the energy with which their readers were ready to annotate, enhance and deface them.""-- ""Times Literary Supplement"""

The great success of William Caxton and Early Printing in England is that its concessions to the general reader extend an invitation into an exciting world of research in progress, where much still remains to be discovered. . . . There is much here for anyone interested in the literature and culture of the years between the medieval and early modern periods, fittingly enhanced by striking illustrations which suggest something of the variousness of early printed books, and the energy with which their readers were ready to annotate, enhance and deface them. -- Times Literary Supplement

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Lotte Hellinga is former Deputy Keeper at the British Library and has published almost 200 books and articles on the history of the book, including Caxton in Focus: The Beginning of Printing in England (1982), she was co-editor of Volume 3 (1400-1557) of The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain (1999), and she is the compiler of the extensive Catalogue of Books Printed in the XVth Century Now in the British Library (2007).

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