The British Library holds a copy of the first version of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. Published in 1476 by William Caxton, only 10 copies of this edition are known to exist. Now this exhibit may ...

It has been a best seller since William Caxton first printed the stories - including The ... The first edition of The Canterbury Tales is extremely rare and a copy in 1998 sold for £4,621,500, the ...

Keen readers can get a look at a digitised version of a copy of the first edition of literary classic The Canterbury Tales. The 1476/77 edition, printed by William Caxton and owned by Merton ...

Perhaps the most interesting piece on exhibit is one leaf from "The Canterbury Tales", published in 1488 by William Caxton, the first English printer. This single page is probably worth $300 as it ...

A rare first edition of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, believed to be the first book ... ago by the man considered the father of the printing press in England, William Caxton. A team from ...

William Caxton made history when he established the first printing press in England and used it to produce copies of the country’s first printed books: The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer.

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and influence of William Caxton ... such as Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales' and small liturgical 'books of hours'. The standard of Caxton's printing ...

It was Caxton who introduced the first printing press to England, establishing his press in Westminster in 1476. The first book he published there was Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. William ...

queries William Caxton, the protagonist in the opening ... arrival in his yard of five fictional characters from The Canterbury Tales. William is a printer of books, and the characters ...

In the poem, first printed by William Caxton in 1478 ... the University of Cambridge and a leading authority on The Canterbury Tales, will give a speech to the pilgrims on Tuesday evening at ...