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Born 1508 • Coventry • England
Died August 27, 1565 (aged 57) • Leuven
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John Walter, I
English publisher
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Edward Blount
English publisher
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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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Stanley Morison
English typographer
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Thomas Rymer
English critic
Fell, portrait by Sir Peter Lely; in the City Art Gallery, Bristol, county of Avon
John Fell
English educator, priest, and author
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John Baskerville
English printer
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Henry Muddiman
English journalist
John Nichols, engraving by Charles Heath after a portrait by J. Jackson
John Nichols
English writer
Dodsley, detail of an oil painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1760; in Dulwich College Picture Gallery, London
Robert Dodsley
English author and publisher
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Benjamin Harris
British journalist
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Joseph Moses Levy
British journalist
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Edward Arber
British scholar
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Thomas East
English music publisher
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Wynkyn de Worde
English printer
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François Didot
French printer and bookseller
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Ambroise-Firmin Didot
French printer and typesetter