The biography and typography of William Caxton, England's first printer

by William Blades

EN·~12 hours·22 chapters

Chapters

22 total

PREFACE.

7:22

CHAPTER I.

12:10

CHAPTER II.

18:25

CHAPTER III.

40:25

CHAPTER IV.

13:19

CHAPTER V.

19:39

CHAPTER VI.

12:56

CHAPTER VII.

29:47

CHAPTER VIII.

48:30

CHAPTER IX.

1:40:48

Details

Language

Duration

~12 hours (702K characters)

Release date

2026-05-11

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78654

About the author

William Blades

1824–1890

A Victorian printer and bibliographer who turned a working knowledge of the press into pioneering research on England’s earliest printed books. Best known for his studies of William Caxton and for The Enemies of Books, he wrote with both scholarly care and a book lover’s enthusiasm.

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