William Caxton was an English merchant, diplomat, writer and printer. He was the first English person to work as a printer and the first person to introduce a printing press into England. He was also the first English retailer of books (his London contemporaries were all Dutch, German or French). Wikipedia
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William Caxton ( c. 1422-1491), the first English printer, was born somewhere in the Weald of Kent , perhaps at Tenterden . The name, which was apparently pronounced Cauxton, is identical with Causton, the name of a manor in the parish of Hadlow, and wa www.1911encyclopedia.org/William_Caxton
There is some evidence to show that Caxton first learned printing at Cologne, where other famous printers had learned it, but the question is still under debate. His first book, the "Recuyell", was undoubtedly printed at Bruges in 1474, at the press of C www.catholicity.com/encyclopedia/c/caxton,william.html