Caxton's Westminster Press

Timeline

1. 1476Westminster · WestminsterCaxton brought the metal movable-type technique he had mastered in the Low Countries back to England, setting up a press in Westminster and giving the kingdom its first stable domestic movable-type printing capacity.
2. 1477–1485Westminster · WestminsterIn 1477 he issued The Dictes and Sayenges of the Philosophers, England's first English book with a clear date; over the next decade he continued printing translations, chronicles, and religious works, expanding the readership of English print.
3. c. 1491–1492Westminster · WestminsterAfter Caxton's death, his long-time assistant Wynkyn de Worde took over the Westminster press and continued English publishing, so that printing in England was not interrupted by the founder's death.