Word: caxton
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...tenth Library Bulletin contains, in the body of the accession list, a valuable note on the early maps of America. Among the accessions is a copy of the Caxton Bible, which was printed from movable type and bound in the short space of twelve hours, on occasion of the Caxton commemoration in 1877, copies of which are also in the libraries of the Massachusetts Historical Society and the American Antiquarian Society...
...noticeable that two widely varying accounts of his life are extant, - one by Geoffrey Monmouth, a writer of the first half of the twelfth century, which was translated from a Welsh original, written by Walter Mapes, Archdeacon of Oxford; and the other by Sir Thomas Malory, printed by Caxton...