Wynkyn de Worde

Portrait and printer's mark of Wynkyn de Worde

Wynkyn de Worde , in various sources also Winandus van Worden , John or Johannes Wynkyn or Wykyn , Wynkyn Vort or William Wykyn († 1535 in London ) was an English printer .

Life

It is believed that De Worde came from Woerth in Alsace . He was the assistant to the first English printer, William Caxton , with whom he worked in Westminster from 1477 . Presumably he came to England with or shortly after Caxton. After his death († 1491), De Worde brought out more than 800 titles in 45 years as his successor and moved his printing company from Westminster to London's Fleet Street in 1500 . He was the first Englishman to print music and italics . De Worde also brought out many school books, such as the grammars of John Colet , Erasmus of Rotterdam and William Lilly .

Works (excerpts)

Vitae Sanctorum Patrum
Bartholomaeus de Proprietatibus Rerum by John Trevisa
Dives and Pauper
The Book of St. Albans
The Canterbury Tales
Contemplacyon of sinners by William Touris
Mandeville's Travels
Beves of Hamtoun
Guy of Warwick
Robin Hood
The Miracles of Our Lady
The Red or Mirror of Consolation
The Twelve Profits of Tribulation
The Bowge of Court by John Skelton
The History of the Three Kings of Cologne
The Ship of Fools
The World and the Child
Gesta Romanorum
Christmas mass Carolles

literature

Leonard Chave: Forty Years On: The Wynkyn De Worde Society 1957-1997 . John Taylor Book Ventures, 1997, ISBN 1-871224-14-4

Web links

Commons : Wynkyn de Worde - collection of images, videos and audio files

Prints by Wynkyn de Worde in the complete catalog of incandescent prints
NF Blake: Wynkyn de Worde . In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography doi: 10.1093 / ref: odnb / 29968
Printing (spread of the invention) . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon 1885-1892, 3rd volume, page 555
The Story of Books (Engl.)
Book printing in the 15th century

Remarks

^ NF Blake: Wynkyn de Worde . In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography doi: 10.1093 / ref: odnb / 29968 .

personal data
SURNAME	Worde, Wynkyn de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Worden, Winandus van; Wynkyn, John; Wynkyn, Johannes; Wykyn, John; Vort, Wynkyn; Wykyn, William
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	English printer
DATE OF BIRTH	15th century
DATE OF DEATH	1535
Place of death	London

[1] NF Blake: Wynkyn de Worde . In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography doi: 10.1093 / ref: odnb / 29968 .