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Also Known As Jan Van Wynkyn
Died 1534 or 1535
William Morris
British artist and author
William Caxton
William Caxton
English printer, translator, and publisher
Edward Blount
English publisher
Robert Maxwell, 1991.
Robert Maxwell
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Henri II Estienne
French scholar and printer
Aldus Manutius
Italian printer
Robert Foulis
Scottish printer
Isaiah Thomas
American journalist
Title page to the Biblia, showing olive-tree motif adopted as Estienne family emblem, 1532
Robert I Estienne
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Daniel Berkeley Updike
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German printer
Aldus Manutius the Younger
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Geoffroy Tory
French printer
William Byrd
William Byrd
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British composer
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