Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and influence of William Caxton, the merchant who brought the printing press to the British Isles. After spending several years working as a printer in ...

1476 Near this place William Caxton set up the first printing press in England. This stone was placed here to commemorate the great assistance rendered to the Abbey Appeal Fund by the English speaking ...

They came in with William Caxton's printing press, but typefaces still matter in the digital age A new typeface once took years to create, now thousands are available at the click of a drop-down menu.

Erika Delbecque found the pages made by England's first printer, William Caxton. By Sean Coughlan. ... They are believed to be from the earliest years of Caxton's printing press, either 1476 or ...

1790: William Nicholson of London patents the cylindrical printing press. 1814: The first steampowered cylindrical printing press, built by Frederick Koenig and Conrad Bauer, is installed at The ...

It has all happened so quickly that we sometimes take it for granted. And yet its magnitude is already comparable to that of the invention of the printing press by William Caxton in the 1400s.

Created by William Caxton at the country's first press in Westminster on December 13, 1476, it will be displayed at the National Archives, in Kew, south London. A section of the document printed ...

Robert Lacey: In 1469, William Caxton, an English Merchant living in the prosperous Flemish trading town of Brugge, was finishing a book that he himself had researched. Caxton was a trader in rich ...

- [Meregaglia] The name comes from William Caxton, who was a 15th century printer in England, widely believed to be the first printer in England. - [Narrator] Caxton began printing a few books on ...

Erika Delbecque found the pages made by England's first printer, William Caxton Pages printed more than 500 years ago by William Caxton, who brought printing to England, have been discovered by ...