REPLY1850
CAXTON'S PRINTING-OFFICE
By JOHN GOUGH NICHOLS.
Dr. Rimbault has evidently not seen a short article on Caxton's printing at Westminster, which I inserted in the *Gentleman's Magazine* for April, 1846, nor the reference made to it in the magazine for June last, p. 630., or he would have admitted that his objections to Dr. Dibdin's conjectures on this point had been already stated; moreover, I think he would have seen that the difficulty had been actually cleared up. In truth, the popular misapprehension on this subject has not been occasioned by any obscurity in the colophons of the great printer, or in the survey of Stow, but merely by theā¦
Topics: Printing History, Historical Customs, Genealogy
Locations: Westminster, England, Canterbury, St. Alban's