William Caxton (1422–1491) examining his first printing. Caxton was an English merchant, diplomat, and writer. He is thought to be the first person to introduce a printing press into England, when in 1476, he returned to England and set up the first printing shop in the country near Westminster Cathedral. From here he issued over a hundred books between 1476 and 1492, the year of his death.

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