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Our Book of the Month this September is 2nd edition of Cessolis's The Game and Play of Chess from 1483. Woodcut illustrations uniquely "humanize" the pieces. Learn more about this fascinating edition and its place in history of chess at https://t.co/fGovt1Vmza

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2022-09-07

📰 English printer and translator, first to print in the English language, was 13 August 1422 (date disputed).

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2022-08-13

💙 Meet Caxton! 💙

I love him <3 Such a cute yet bad lil pupper XD I love drawing his eyes =w=

Also he is strong too!

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2022-06-08

William Caxton – Examining First Proof Sheet from His Printing Press in Westminster Abbey, A.D. 1474, Frederick Bacon

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2021-05-11

Caxtonian Leora Siegel, Senior Director, Lenhardt Library wrote a recent blog (https://t.co/pclw043y2Y) for the Biodiversity Heritage Library about The Floral Offering (https://t.co/taUpSu7Xp9)

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2021-01-06

Calendars were also a natural choice for the advertiser. 1880 calendar for Pritchett & Taylor, Steam Printers featuring William Caxton on the cover. He is thought to be the first person to introduce a printing press into England in 1476.

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2020-12-09

A Fox for All Seasons: Retelling Reynard the Fox by Anne Louise Avery – Whilst the skeleton is constructed around my translation of Caxton’s Middle English, I fleshed and furred the text, rooting it even more deeply in the landscapes of the tale’s youth https://t.co/38XPXhy3df

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2020-11-18

Retelling Reynard the Fox by Anne Louise Avery – Word by word, I eased the Greatest Fox Trickster who ever flicked a brush into a new century, doing exactly the same as Caxton had done in his little printing house at Westminster all those centuries before https://t.co/38XPXhy3df

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2020-11-17

I love those particular illlustrations. My new version of Reynard is being published in October by the Bodleian, but it's based on Caxton and the Dutch tradition. https://t.co/wig4jpaakI

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2020-03-31

Pearl Bailey and Louis Beilson wedding Caxton Hall

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2019-12-01

Elizabeth Taylor, one week from her twentieth birthday, and her second husband, actor Michael Wilding, leaving Caxton Hall in Westminster after their wedding on Feb. 21, 1952.

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2019-06-12

Caxton’s 1476-7 printing of the Canterbury Tales, the first book printed in England, will soon be on show in ‘Writing
Forthcoming Events inspired by the exhibition include on children’s Alphabet Books
https://t.co/LMQt2UB2pu

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2019-02-21