Nearly 550 years ago, 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 ...

First book advert Caxton expert and former deputy keeper at the British Library, Dr Lotte Hellinga, said that it was a very rare event for a piece of printing by Caxton to be found.

The first printing press came to the city in about 1496, set up by the Dutchman Frederick Freez - only 22 years after William Caxton established England's first press at Westminster. In his ...

William Caxton's 1481 printing of Cicero, which is Canada's oldest printed book in English, is shown at the University of Toronto's Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library in Toronto on April 20, 2018.