Caxton and his printer press

With the advent of printing, books became easily available and cheap and were spread far and wide. As the art of printing was widespread, books came to be freely circulated and proved to be the carries of civilization. That happened in England after the introduction of printing.
The introduction of printing into England was made by William Caxton, who set up his printing press of Westminster in 1576. This constitutes an important landmark in the literary growth in England. It is the process of printing, initiated by him, that has contributed much to the multification of the number of readers and stabilization of the position of writers. Printing, in fact is found instrumental to the expension of literary activities and to the civilization of literary standards and testes.
The first printed book in English is ‘Recuyell of the Histories of Troy’. Caxton’s earliest productions in print include among others,too Lydgate’s –
Tample of Glass,Life of our Lady,Chaucer’s,The Parliament of Foules,The hous of frame. Moreover The Canterbury tales(by Chaucer ),Confessis Amantis(gower),Le morte d’ Arthur (Thomas Malory )and the translation,like The golden Legend,The Eneydos,Aesop Fables,The Order of Chivalry and so on,may be included in the catalogue of his production
Caxton deserves a high commendation for his great venture that has served to enrich English literature archive immense popularity for it and established clear link between the literature of the past and that of the present. He should not be taken as a mere professional printer. He was a lover of literature who earnestly endeavored to make books popular among all.

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