A woodcut from William Caxton | William Caxton's second edition of the Canterbury Tales printed in 1483.

Chief among the legendary sources about the saint is the Golden Legend, which remains the most familiar version in English owing to William Caxton's 15th-century translation.

Shroeder conjectured that the literary source for the Petruchio / Katherina story could have been William Caxton's translation of the Queen Vastis story from Livre pour l ' enseignement de ses filles du Chevalier de La Tour Landry.

William Caxton's parentage is uncertain.

However, George D. Painter makes numerous references to the year 1491 in his book William Caxton: a biography as the year of Caxton's death, since according to the calendar used at the time ( March 24 being the last day of the year ), the year-change hadn't happened yet.

The most conspicuous omissions from William Caxton's press were the Bible and Piers Plowman.

Publishing started in Fleet Street around 1500 when William Caxton's apprentice, Wynkyn de Worde, set up a printing shop near Shoe Lane, while at around the same time Richard Pynson set up as publisher and printer next to St. Dunstan's church.

The fable of the farmer and his sons from William Caxton | Caxton's edition

It was one of the first books William Caxton printed in the English language ; Caxton's version appeared in 1483 and his translation was reprinted, reaching a ninth edition in 1527.

* The Golden Legend — William Caxton's Middle English version ( not quite complete ).

* William Caxton's version ( complete ).

William Caxton's early print of 1478 is also considered authoritative, for it reproduces the text of a manuscript now considered lost.

* The Canterbury Tales ( based on British Library copies of William Caxton's editions ), via a De Montfort University website

His Life and Typography of William Caxton, England's First Printer, was published in 1861-1863, and the conclusions which he set forth were arrived at by a careful examination of types in the early books, each class of type being traced from its first use to the time when, spoilt by wear, it passed out of Caxton's hands.

* William Caxton's 1483 translation of Geoffroy de la Tour Landry, The Book of the Knight of the Tower ( originally in French )

William Caxton's 1480 Description of Britain debated whether or not Cornwall should be shown as separate to, or part of, England.

Full of secret chambers and passageways, in William Caxton's The Historie of Reynart the Foxe ( 1485 ) the castle of Maleperduys is described as the " best and the fastest burgh that had.

A similar rhyme has been noted in William Caxton's, The Game and Playe of the Chesse ( c. 1475 ), in which pawns are named: " Labourer, Smith, Clerk, Merchant, Physician, Taverner, Guard and Ribald.

Alfred William Lawson ( March 24, 1869 – November 29, 1954 ) was a professional baseball player, manager and league promoter from 1887 through 1916 and went on to play a pioneering role in the US aircraft industry, publishing two early aviation trade journals.

Quite a few of the pioneering apologists were Baptist pastors, like I. M. Haldeman, or participants in the Plymouth Brethren, like William C. Irvine and Sydney Watson.

The pioneering American psychologist William James commented that:

Popular and pioneering film makers included the Bamforths in Yorkshire, William Haggar and his family business in Wales and Frank Mottershaw whose film, A Daring Daylight Robbery, started the chase genre.

After Von Laue's pioneering research, the field developed rapidly, most notably by physicists William Lawrence Bragg and his father William Henry Bragg.

* William Ginsberg, attorney who litigated pioneering case regarding tax deductibility of conservation easements

It clearly shows the influence of the pioneering saga translations by William Morris and Eirikr Magnusson in the late 1860s.

Early investments in steam included co-founding the steam ferry company in Halifax harbour and an investment in the pioneering steamship Royal William.

William Hogarth ( 10 November 1697 – 26 October 1764 ) was an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic and editorial cartoonist who has been credited with pioneering western sequential art.

* William Henry Temple Gairdner — pioneering missionary in Cairo and amongst Muslims, apologist

The film was made by Charles and Nevin Tait, Millard Johnson and William Gibson, pioneering exhibitors.

A pioneering study of Peto and Harnett is Alfred Frankenstein's After the Hunt, William Harnett and Other American Still Life Painters 1870-1900.

The English satirist and editorial cartoonist William Hogarth, who emerged In the 18th century, has been credited with pioneering Western sequential art.

William Charles Norris ( July 14, 1911 near Red Cloud, Nebraska – August 21, 2006 ) was the pioneering CEO of Control Data Corporation, at one time one of the most powerful and respected computer companies in the world.

Other famous 19th century graduates include Ray Stannard Baker, a famed " muckraker " journalist and Pulitzer Prize winning biographer ; Minakata Kumagusu, a renowned environmental scientist ; and William Chandler Bagley, a pioneering education reformer.

French and German social science research on rumor locates the modern scholarly definition of it to the pioneering work of the German William Stern in 1902.

* William Yates, MD, born 1767, after instruction and supply from Dr. Jenner in England, arrived in Philadelphia 1799, began smallpox vaccination program, and has a state historical marker on route 23 east of the Village of Morris crediting him for pioneering this work in the USA.

The Abney level was invented by Sir William de Wiveleslie Abney ( 1843 – 1920 ) who was a Royal Engineer, an English astronomer and chemist best known for his pioneering of colour photography and colour vision.

He, with his brother Francis, founded the pioneering locomotive company Crossley and the ( now defunct ) car manufacturer Crossley Motors and was a Director of the Manchester Ship Canal. Sir William Crossley's Key

* William F. Durand ( 1859-1958 ), American pioneering aeronautical engineer

George Richards Minot ( December 2, 1885 – February 25, 1950 ) was an American medical researcher who shared the 1934 Nobel Prize with George Hoyt Whipple and William P. Murphy for their pioneering work on pernicious anemia.

The twelve founding members included nine Quakers, and three pioneering Anglicans – Granville Sharp, Thomas Clarkson, and William Wilberforce — all evangelical Christians sympathetic to the religious revival that had predominantly nonconformist origins, but which sought wider non-denominational support for a " Great Awakening " amongst believers.

To the east of the canal entrance, behind a viaduct arch is the octagonal tower of a hydraulic accumulator, 1869, replacing an earlier and pioneering structure dating from the 1850s by William George Armstrong, engineer and inventor.