Do you know when you come across a fiver in an old pair of trousers and it makes your day?Our Specia
Do you know when you come across a fiver in an old pair of trousers and it makes your day?Our Special Collections experienced something similar recently when they found one of the oldest printed pages in the history of English printing.This unique example of 15th century printed text by English printer William Caxton was found in the John & Griselda Lewis collection, within the binding of another book. The two pages are from a medieval priest handbook dating back to late 1476 or early 1477, which was printed just a year after William Caxton set up his pioneering press in England. No other copies of the pages, printed either side of a single leaf of paper, are known to have survived. You can come and have a look at it in Reading, but you only have until 16 June! -- source link
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