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Last Name Worde

Given Name Wynkyn

alt. Names W. d. W. ; de Worde ;

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Year born 1455 or 1456, probably in Wœrden in Holland, NL

Year died 1534 or 1535

Place of death London

Father's occupation

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Education accompanied William Caxton to England and worked with him as his apprentice or foreman until Caxton's death in 1492.

Country of Activity Netherlands

Worked for John Trevisa & Bartholomaeus Anglicus: De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495, 1st illustrated natural history book) ; William Caxton ; Treatise of fishing ;

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Collaborators

Techniques ichthyological, natural, astronomical, (al)chemical, and technical woodcut

Sample(s) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brief_History_of_Wood-engraving_Wynkyn_de_Worde_Fishing.png ; http://press.anu.edu.au/journey/html/ch06s10.html

Archival sources www.library.manchester.ac.uk/firstimpressions/Pioneers-of-Print/Wynkyn-de-Worde/ ; see links in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wynkyn_de_Worde

Published sources Robb-Smith 1951: 3 ;

other Further Places of Activity: England (printer and publisher in Westminster & London).

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