THE MORGAN EXPLORES THE ORIGINS OF THE FIRST ENGLISH PRINTED BOOKS IN A NEW EXHIBITION OPENING MAY 29

Press release date: 
Thursday, May 7, 2015

William Caxton and the Birth of English Printing, on view at the Morgan Library & Museum from May 29 through September 20, celebrates this foundational moment in the history of the English language and literature. Caxton would go on to publish such notable early works as Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and Thomas Malory’s Le Morte D'Arthur, thereby stabilizing the English language for future generations.

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