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Wynkyn de Worde printed ballads of Robin Hood from the 16th century are an important artefact, as are John Playford's The Dancing Master and Robert Harley's Roxburghe Ballads collections.
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We know from a reference in William Langland's Piers Plowman, that ballads about Robin Hood were being sung from at least the late 14th century and the oldest detailed material we have is Wynkyn de Worde's collection of Robin Hood ballads printed about 1495.
Barclay also translated the Mirrour of Good Manners, from the Italian of Dominic Mancini, and wrote five Eclogues, printed by Wynkyn de Worde about 1518.
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.
Wynkyn de Worde was buried in St. Bride's in 1535.
Cock Lovell's Bate ( printed by Wynkyn de Worde, c. 1510 ) is another imitation of the Narrenschiff.
St Bride's association with the newspaper business began in 1500 when Wynkyn de Worde set up a printing press next door.
We know from a reference in William Langland's Piers Plowman, that ballads about Robin Hood were being sung from at least by the late 14th century and the oldest detailed material we have is Wynkyn de Worde's collection of Robin Hood ballads printed about 1495.
An English translation from the French chapbook was made by Wynkyn de Worde, Caxton's assistant, and published without date under the title Robert deuyll.
There is a canard that the earliest mention of the rhyme occurs in Wynkyn de Worde's " The demaundes joyous " printed in 1511.
The earliest surviving edition ( printed by Wynkyn de Worde ) is dated 17 July 1522, although the play is believed to have been written earlier than that and to have circulated in manuscript form.
Wynkyn de Worde ( also Wynken ; originally Jan van Wynkyn ) ( pronounced: Winkin dee Werd ) ( died 1534 ) was a printer and publisher in London known for his work with William Caxton, and is recognized as the first to popularize the products of the printing press in England.
His name lives on via the " Wynkyn de Worde Society ," founded in the United Kingdom in 1957 for " people dedicated to excellence in all aspects of printing and the various stages of its creation, production, finishing and dissemination.
Wynkyn de Worde was the historical basis for the character William de Worde in the book The Truth by Terry Pratchett.
Wynkyn de Worde was also the name of a friar in Sara Douglass ' The Crucible Triloogy, set in an alternate 14th century England.
* Wynkyn de Worde Society
* N. F. Blake, ‘ Worde, Wynkyn de ( d. 1534 / 5 )’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004 ; online edn, Jan 2008, accessed 12 Jan 2008
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The first printing of Malory's work was made by Caxton in 1485 ; it proved popular, and was reprinted, with some additions and changes, in 1498 and 1529 by Wynkyn de Worde who succeeded Caxton's press.
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De Worde was born in Wœrth in Alsace ; the name by which he is generally known means " Wynkyn of Wœrth.
" Her name was changed by Wynkyn de Worde to " Dame Julyans Bernes.
Joseph Haslewood, who published a facsimile of that of Wynkyn de Worde ( London, 1811, folio ) with a biographical and bibliographical notice, examined with the greatest care the author's claims to figure as the earliest woman author in the English language.
There were many editions of this book in the 15th and 16th centuries, one of which was printed by the early printer Wynkyn de Worde in English, as The Gospelles of Dystaves.
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His capital work is The History of Graunde Amour and la Bel Pucel, conteining the knowledge of the Seven Sciences and the Course of Mans Life in this Worlde or The Passetyme of Pleasure, printed by Wynkyn de Worde in 1509, but finished three years earlier.
Many jests about ignorant and greedy clergy in chapbooks were taken from The Friar and the Boy printed about 1500 by Wynkyn de Worde, and The Sackfull of News ( 1557 ).
Some of his writings were printed in the sixteenth century, by Wynkyn de Worde.
The oldest book within the library was printed in Venice around the year 1480, with the oldest English book printed in about 1500 bearing the imprint of Wynkyn de Worde.
Several jest-books are attributed to him without authority: The Merie Tales of the Mad Men of Gotam ( earliest extant edition, 1630 ), Scogins Jests ( 1626 ), A mery jest of the Mylner of Abyngton, with his wyfe, and his daughter, and of two poore scholers of Cambridge ( printed by Wynkyn de Worde ), and a Latin poem, Nos Vagabunduli.
Whittington's grammars continued to be printed during the 1520s, usually by Wynkyn de Worde but briefly also by Richard Pynson.
The Latin romance was frequently printed in the 15th century, and Wynkyn de Worde printed an English version about 1515.
Among his other works is The Complaynte of them that ben too late maryed, an undated tract printed by Wynkyn de Worde.
The oldest printed copy of this ballad dates from 1505 and was printed by Wynkyn de Worde.
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These were major interests of the nobility, and the publisher, Wynkyn de Worde, was concerned that the book should be kept from those who were not gentlemen, since their immoderation in angling might " utterly destroye it ".
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William Caxton and Wynkyn de Worde began using the printing press during the late 15th century.
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* William de Worde, Otto Chriek and The Ankh-Morpork Times in The Truth
" Traditionally, he was believed to have accompanied Caxton to England in 1476 ; more recently, it has been argued that de Worde actually arrived c. 1481, and that Caxton brought him to England to counter the competition of a second printer.
" In 1495, following Caxton's death in 1492 and a three-year litigation, de Worde took over Caxton's print shop.
Caxton had depended on noble patrons to sustain his enterprise ; while de Worde enjoyed the support of patrons too ( principally Margaret Beaufort, mother of King Henry VII ), he shifted his emphasis to the creation of relatively inexpensive books for a commercial audience and the beginnings of a mass market.
Where Caxton had used paper imported from the Low Countries, de Worde exploited the product of John Tate, the first English papermaker.
Religious works dominated his output, in keeping with the tenor of the time ; but de Worde also printed volumes ranging from romantic novels to poetry ( he published the work of John Skelton and Stephen Hawes ), and from children's books to volumes on household practice and animal husbandry.
Books printed by de Worde include:
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