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The first published book by the printing press was an Italian–Arabic dictionary. [48] Lithographic printmaking was introduced as a way of mechanical reproduction of text and image by the 19th century CE, shortly after its invention in the Kingdom of Bavaria. [52]
There are multiple candidates for first novel in English partly because of ignorance of earlier works, but largely because the term novel can be defined so as to exclude earlier candidates. (The article for novel contains detailed information on the history of the terms "novel" and "romance" and the bodies of texts they defined in a historical ...
This article gives a chronological list of years in literature, with notable publications listed with their respective years and a small selection of notable events.The time covered in individual years covers Renaissance, Baroque and Modern literature, while Medieval literature is resolved by century.
Jack Bradbury: autobiography about working in animation and comic books; Barry Brown: Unsung Heroes of the Horrors, interview profiles of actors; Peter Bogdanovich: But What I Really I Want to Do is Direct: My First Picture Shows 1965–1971, a memoir detailing his life and career as a director [8] Buff Cobb: Memoirs of a Subdeb in Hollywood
Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies is a collection of plays by William Shakespeare, commonly referred to by modern scholars as the First Folio, [a] published in 1623, about seven years after Shakespeare's death. It is considered one of the most influential books ever published. [1]
First published in the so-called "bad" First Quarto, 1603 Earliest recorded performance of Hamlet was in June 1602, with Richard Burbage in the title role. Some scholars, such as Peter Alexander and Eric Sams , believe that the oft-attributed source work known as the Ur-Hamlet was actually a first draft of the play, written by Shakespeare ...
May 5 – The first published poem by 20-year-old trainee surgeon John Keats, the sonnet "To Solitude", appears in The Examiner. [2] May 9 – Lady Caroline Lamb's anonymous novel Glenarvon is the first book published independently by Henry Colburn in London.
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.