Презентация, доклад по английскому языку William Caxton

IV and Queen Elizabeth at the Almonry, Westminster (painting by Daniel Maclise)

was born in Kent in 1422. His father was a farmer. William did not want to become a farmer like his father. So his father sent him to London. He worked in an office which traded with different countries. William liked to read new books which were printed in Europe.

death he started his own business in Belgium. In 1471 he left his business and began to translate French books into English.
He became interested in printing and at last he learnt it. William wanted to have his own press one day and he did.

his printing-press to London. Printing was something new at that time and most people thought that it was the work of the devil. Some of the people wanted to break his press.

was the first book printed in the English language. The book was Caxton's translation of the French 'Tales of Troy'.
William Caxton printed about eighty books. He translated thirty-one books from French. Caxton died in 1491.

printed by Caxton, London, 1481. ---- The Prologue, at the top of page, begins: Here begynneth the boke Intituled Eracles, and also Godefrey of Boloyne, the whiche speketh of the Conquest of the holy lande of Jherusalem. (the blank space on this page was for the insertion by hand of an illuminated initial T)

father sent him to Paris.
2. Caxton worked in a hospital.
3. Caxton started his own business before his master's death.
4. Caxton translated German books into Russian.
5. Most people knew a lot about printing at that time.
6. Caxton printed his first book in 1577.
7. Caxton printed more than a hundred books.