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Wynkyn de Worde 'Father of Fleet Street'
Wynkyn de Worde, Alsatian printer, was William Caxton's assistant, and in about 1500 he was the first printer to set up shop in Fleet Street, which became for centuries the world's most famous centre of printing. He was not just a craftsman because his place in history is that of the first publisher to popularise the products of the printing press. His output was huge, with more then 700 known works over a period of forty years. He produced a great variety of books: children's books, short histories, poetry, romances, instructions for pilgrims, marriage, household practice and animal husbandry. He laid the foundations for commercial publishing in Britain. This is a revised third edition, with a new introduction by Lotte Hellinga and Mary Erler, and a detailed chronological bibliography of his works.
Wynkyn de Worde 'Father of Fleet Street'
Wynkyn de Worde, Alsatian printer, was William Caxton's assistant, and in about 1500 he was the first printer to set up shop in Fleet Street, which became for centuries the world's most famous centre of printing. He was not just a craftsman because his place in history is that of the first publisher to popularise the products of the printing press. His output was huge, with more then 700 known works over a period of forty years. He produced a great variety of books: children's books, short histories, poetry, romances, instructions for pilgrims, marriage, household practice and animal husbandry. He laid the foundations for commercial publishing in Britain. This is a revised third edition, with a new introduction by Lotte Hellinga and Mary Erler, and a detailed chronological bibliography of his works.