Caxton

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• He could, as in _The Caxtons_, be fairly true to ordinary life -- but even then he seemed to feel a necessity of setting off and as it were apologising for the simplicity and veracity by touches -- in fact by _douches_ -- of Sternian fantastry, and by other touches of what was a little later to be called sensationalism. The English Novel
• The two were used interchangeably as early as the 1920s, although some whiskered English traditionalists will still insist on "fount" in an elitist way, in the hope that it will stretch their authenticity all the way back to Caxton, the great British printer of Chaucer. The Guardian World News
• [130] Caxton has: "seeth"; the Latin text: quantumcumque videat seu sentiat. The Cell of Self-Knowledge : seven early English mystical treatises printed by Henry Pepwell in 1521
• Caxton learned to print in Bruges, using Burgundian styles, texts, and machines, so the earliest English books have a Burgundian feel, most evident in typefaces, layouts, and colophons.
• Caxton was a trader in rich cloths, a mercer, and books were his passion.
• But, aunt Caxton," said Eleanor, who felt herself taken down a little, as a secure talker is apt to be by a manner very composed in his opponent – "it is surely the habit of refined persons in these times not to get excited – or not to express their feelings very publicly? The Old Helmet
• I hesitated a moment; but having heard that such communications were usually made by the visitors of show places, I answered: "Oh! a very venerable one, if your master is what they call a bibliomaniac -- Caxton. The Caxtons — Volume 05
• Mr. Nichols acknowledges that what he calls a vulgar error was current and popular, that in some part of the Abbey Caxton did erect his press, yet we are expected to submit to the almost unsupported dictum of that gentleman, and renounce altogether the old and almost universal idea. Notes and Queries, Number 51, October 19, 1850
• Caxton's prefaces, colophons, and epilogues in particular are self-conscious about authorship, purpose, genre, sources, patronage, medium, and technique.
• William Caxton, the great fifteenth-century Brit-ish printer and translator, was first to render Aesop in our language.