The Biography and Typography of William Caxton.

William Caxton was England’s first printer, and therefore of great importance in the history of typography. A successful merchant and diplomat, Caxton began his work as a printer in Bruges in 1473, after being somewhat involved with a printing operation in Cologne in 1471-72. In 1476 Caxton brought the skills he had learned on the Continent to London, where he set up a press in Westminster Abbey.

A couple of Caxton’s types were not very elegant, but they did possess a crude charm. However, his second type is a fine bastarda.