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Printer's mark of William Caxton, 1478. A variant of the merchant's mark. William Caxton (c. 1422 – c. 1491) was an English merchant, diplomat and writer.He is thought to be the first person to introduce a printing press into England in 1476, and as a printer to be the first English retailer of printed books.
The boundary between illustrations for children and adults can be blurry, and throughout their careers many illustrators have created works for children and adults and cannot be simply classified as children illustrators. William Feaver noted that some picture books "were produced as de luxe gift-objects for adults to browse through" (such as ...
The first printed version of Aesop's Fables in English was published on 26 March 1484, by William Caxton. [82] Many others, in prose and verse, followed over the centuries. In the 20th century Ben E. Perry edited the Aesopic fables of Babrius and Phaedrus for the Loeb Classical Library and compiled a numbered index by type in 1952. [83]
The Load of Unicorn is a children's historical novel written and illustrated by Cynthia Harnett. It was first published in 1959, and then republished by Egmont Classics in 2001. It is set in London in 15th century, and concerns the adventures of an apprentice of William Caxton , the printer.
The Caxtons are Austin Caxton, a scholar engaged on a great work, "The History of Human Error;" his wife Kitty, much his junior; his brother Roland, the Captain, who has served in the Napoleonic campaigns; the two children of the latter, Herbert and Blanche; and Austin's son, Pisistratus, who tells the story. The quiet country life of the ...
In 1481, the English William Caxton printed The Historie of Reynart the Foxe, which was translated from Van den vos Reynaerde. [11] Also in the 1480s, the Scottish poet Robert Henryson devised a highly sophisticated development of Reynardian material as part of his Morall Fabillis in the sections known as The Talking of the Tod.
Portrait and printer's mark of Wynkyn de Worde. From a drawing by Fathorne. Plaque to Wynkyn de Worde, Stationers Hall, London Wynkyn de Worde (/ ˈ w ɪ ŋ k ɪ n d ə ˈ w ɜːr d /; died 1534, London) was a printer and publisher in London known for his work with William Caxton, and is recognised as the first to popularise the products of the printing press in England.
Credited as among Aesop's Fables, and recorded in Latin by Phaedrus, [1] the fable is numbered 137 in the Perry Index. [2] There are also versions by the so-called Syntipas (47) via the Syriac, Ademar of Chabannes (60) in Mediaeval Latin, and in Medieval English by William Caxton (4.16).