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Figure 6
This outstanding surviving example of an early press shows the carriage open, exposing the type laid out on the forme* below. Hanging from the side of the press is the soft sponge used to ink the type. Beams anchor the press to the ceiling of the workshop
* = a body of type secured in a chase for printing.
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* = a body of type secured in a chase for printing.
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William Caxton was born in Kent somewhere around 1420. He was experienced to a textile dealer and went to Bruges in the 1440s, where he did well. In 1462 he was appointed governor of the English Trading Company there, the Merchant Adventurers. Caxton was a man of learning as well as being merchant and in 1469 he began work on a translation of a French account of the Trojan War. It was while working in Cologne that he learned about printing and once back in Bruges he set up a press to print his seven-hundred-page translation: “The Recuyell [French - “compilation”] ‘of the Historyes of Troye,’ the first book printed in English. In 1476 he set up his press near Westminster Palace and before his death he had published ninety six items, some in several editions. ` Page 97
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