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Wynkyn de Worde

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Wynkyn de Worde (wĭng`kĭn də wôrd, wûrd), d. 1535, English printer, whose original name was Jan van Wynkyn. He was born at Wörth in Alsace and probably accompanied William Caxton Caxton, William, c.1421–91, English printer, the first to print books in English. He served apprenticeship as a mercer and from 1463 to 1469 was at Bruges as governor of the Merchants Adventurers in the Low Countries, serving as a diplomat for the English king.
..... Click the link for more information.  to England in 1476. He assisted in the work of Caxton at Westminster and after Caxton's death took over his business. His independent work began in 1491 and continued until his death. At first he used only typefaces that Caxton had used, but to these he later added other styles. Wynkyn de Worde printed more than 700 books, including the first English example of music printed from moving type, Higden's Polychronicon (1495).


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What the Common Pleas action does permit us to know is that in 1553 William Powell was sued for debt, in a case that involved a printing house and its contents; that the inventory lists books published by Wynkyn de Worde but also by printers who were either former owners of the George or else had strong links to that press; and that the person who brought the suit shows up in 1568 as sharing with Powell a property interest in the George.
Elizabeth Pickering: the first woman to print law books in England ... by Kreps, Barbara / Renaissance Quarterly
Wynkyn de Worde and His Contemporaries from the Death of Caxton to 1535.
Reprinting Tudor history: the case of Catherine of Aragon by Travitsky, Betty S. / Renaissance Quarterly
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