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Even history’s most notable authors sometimes wrote badly

by David Tollen | Nov 21, 2022 | The Early Modern Age, Linguistics & Philology

William Caxton translated and produced the first book printed in English (Recuyell [Collection] of the Historyes of Troye), in 1473 or 1474. He also set up England’s first printing press, in 1476, and he became the kingdom’s first retailer of printed...