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Did you know?
- That Caxton was a rich wool merchant
based in Flanders, in present-day Belgium
- That Caxton was first involved in publishing while in Cologne
- That the paper
(PDF
format) for the Canterbury Tales was made in France
- The first
book to be printed in English was printed in Bruges, in Flanders
- That the texts of the first and the second editions of The
Canterbury Tales are not quite the same
- That Caxton's type
was designed to look like lettering associated with the court
of the Dukes of Burgundy
- That some of the pages of the second edition are copies
made in the 19th century
- That both the first
and the second edition (PDF
format) were given to the Library - we did not buy them
- That Caxton was close
to the court of Edward IV but lost his royal connection under Richard
III
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