The Library of historic characters and famous events of all nations . PRACTICALLY nothing is known ofthe private life of William Caxton,famous in histor} as Englands firstprinter: his memory lives in hisworks. What we know regardinghis public career has been gleanedprincipally from his own writings,the typographical peculiarities of hisbooks, and a quatrain by Wynken deWorde (his chief workman in Eng-land, who succeeded his master atthe latters death). The place of his birth he has toldus himself: I was bom and lernedmyn englissh in Kente in the weeld where I doubte not isspoken as brode and r
The Library of historic characters and famous events of all nations . PRACTICALLY nothing is known ofthe private life of William Caxton,famous in histor} as Englands firstprinter: his memory lives in hisworks. What we know regardinghis public career has been gleanedprincipally from his own writings,the typographical peculiarities of hisbooks, and a quatrain by Wynken deWorde (his chief workman in Eng-land, who succeeded his master atthe latters death). The place of his birth he has toldus himself: I was bom and lernedmyn englissh in Kente in the weeld where I doubte not isspoken as brode and rude englissh as is in ony place of eng-lond; but the date is a matter of doubt, 1422-3 having,however, been accepted as a likely one. In 1438 we find himin London, apprenticed to Alderman Robert Large ; when hismaster died, in 1441, Caxton took up his residence in theLow Countries. His apprenticeship ended about 1446, andit seems that he immediately left England for Bruges, wentinto business on his own account, and prospered. About1462-63 he appears to have held th
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