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John Howell 10.00
St. Barbars

Legenda Aurea - 1527 27 Aug.- Wynkyn de Worde (d. to 1534)
(cccxvi)

Robert Redman
Richard Pyroon
Julian Notary
Richard & William Faques

Hilton's Scala Perfectionia
Fisher's Sermon at the Funeral of Henry VII
concnetrated on small + saleable guanto volumes
-1st book to be an Dc Worde's name - the
Liber Festivalis - 1493

- the 1st book he printed following Caxton's death is generally
thought to be Chastysing of goddess chuldern which is undated (?1492)
- 1st printer in England to use italic in Conglunes Dialogi (1528)
See #161 - Golden Legend -> printed at least 100 books at Westminster, he
moved from Caxton's old printing house & settled in Fleat St.
- printed more than 900 works between 1492 & 1532 - some 70%
were printed for the 1st time - the "popular printer"
- printed many of the works of John Lydgate including his translation
of Boccaccio's The falle of Princis

H.S. Nennett's - Handlist of Publications by Wynkyn de Worde
1492-1535 mentions 829 editions
Bennett English Books Op. cit. Appendix I
and Readers 1475-1557. 1952.

H.R. Plower History of English Printing. 1899.

- 1523 -> Primer containing "the Pater nester in englysshe" - probably
The earliest printing in England of the Lord's Prayer in the vernacular
The 1st book printed in England untimely in Roman Type
The Oratio of Petrus Gryphus - Richard Pynson, 1509.
- apart from the short-lived paper mill of John Tate at Stevenage (1495-8)
no paper seems to have been manufactured in England on any substantial
scale until John Spilman slanted his mill at Dustford in Kent - 1889.

died 1491 - Caxton - 1st dated book printed in England The Dictco or
Sayenga of the Philosophers Nov. 1477.

Z 151 P7 - Wynkyn de Worde & His Contemporaries - Henry R. Plomer Type Specimens (1501-34) p91
Z 152 L8 B5 pt 1-4 - Hand Lists of English Printers 1501-1556
- the 1st publisher who actually made the schoolbook department the
financial basis of his business (grammars).