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Boccaccio: The Fall of Princess, Princesses and other Nobles - Translated into Englysshe by John Lydgate, monke of Bury and printed in London by Richard Pynson, black letter
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- 1527 (Creation)
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"Richard Pynson, a Norman, who probably learned his trade in Rouen...takes rank as the best printer in England of the fifteenth century. His first dated book appeared in 1492...he was appointed Printer to the King in 1508 and continued in that office until 1529." John Clyde Oswald: A History of Printing