Date:1581
Description:Printing books in Shakespeare's time. By the time of William Shakespeare the printing trade had been established in England for a hundred years since William Caxton first set up a press in London in 1476. In the years of religious turmoil following the Reformation of the Church a wide range of material had appeared in print. In his book of prayers, Richard Day included illustrations of the typesetter, and the printing press as his examples of craftsmen, thus drawing attention to the importance of their work in spreading the new Protestant faith to all. Full title: Richard Day, A Booke of Christian Prayers collected out of the auncient writers and best learned in our tyme, worthy to be read with earnest mynde of all Christians in these daungerous and troublesome dayes', London, John Daye, 1581.
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Source: The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust - Library
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