William Caxton

(1422 c.-1492)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Caxton, William, ca. 1422-1491 or 2 DNB: Caxton, William (1415x24-1492), printer, merchant, and diplomat LBT ID: WiCaxto1422 VIAF ID: 68979076 LOC ID: n79007370	B/BAP: 1422 DIED: 1492
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The first English printer, who set up a press at Westminster in 1476 and translated several of the books he published.
REFERENCES TO William Caxton: Walter Scott to Robert Southey, November 1807 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 3 Henry Brougham to Thomas Creevey, 1830 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter I 1804-05 Found 1: ¶ 17 Chapter IV 1806-08 Chapter X 1823 Found 1: ¶ 3 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 8: My Own Life Found 1: ¶ 6 Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Prelude 2 Found 1: ¶ 8 Chapter VI Found 1: ¶ 2 Chapter VI Found 3: ¶ 1 ¶ 2 ¶ 3 Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Chapter 18: 1837-43 Found 1: ¶ 40 Creevey, Thomas, 1768-1838, The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Ch. IX: 1830-31