ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -William Caxton, (born c. 1422, Kent, England-died 1491, London), the first English printer, who, as a translator and publisher, exerted an important influence on English literature.

Detailed explanation-2: -William Caxton. William Caxton (b. 1415–24–1492) was the person who brought the technology of printing to England. Before Caxton set up his printing press in Westminster, London, in 1475 or 1476, books in England were copied out by hand, by scribes.

Detailed explanation-3: -William Caxton was the first Englishman to learn to use a printing press. The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye was his first printed book, and the first book printed anywhere in English.

Detailed explanation-4: -Caxton was born around 1420, some 30 years before printing was invented, by Johann Gutenberg in the 1450s. At first the new technology spread rather slowly from Mainz where Gutenberg printed his famous Bible in around 1454-55, but in the mid 1460s it began to spread more rapidly and reached Cologne around 1465.

Detailed explanation-5: -In 1477 William Caxton printed what could be described as Britain’s first advert, for a book called The Pyes of Salisbury.