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Born	1656?
Died	April 2, 1736 • England

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John Walter, I

English publisher

William Blake

William Blake

English engraver, artist, and poet

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William Morris

British artist and author

William Byrd

William Byrd

English composer

William Caxton

William Caxton

English printer, translator, and publisher

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Thomas Morley

British composer

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Edward Levy-Lawson, 1st Baron Burnham

British newspaper editor and proprietor

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William Boyce

British composer

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Thomas Rymer

English critic

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Sir Victor Gollancz

British author and publisher

Portrait of William Michael Rossetti by Sir William Rothenstein, oil on canvas, 1909; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

William Michael Rossetti

English art critic

Fell, portrait by Sir Peter Lely; in the City Art Gallery, Bristol, county of Avon

John Fell

English educator, priest, and author

Bowring, detail of an engraving by William Ward (1766-1826), after a painting by H.W. Pickersgill

Sir John Bowring

British diplomat

Carlile, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

Richard Carlile

English journalist

William Hone, detail of an oil painting by George Patten in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

William Hone

English journalist

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Jonathan Cape

British publisher

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John Walter, II

English journalist

Leonard Woolf

Leonard Woolf

British writer

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William Rastell

English printer and lawyer

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William Heinemann

English publisher