Caxton may refer to:
Places
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Caxton Street, Brisbane
Caxton Street is a street in the Brisbane suburb of Petrie Terrace in Queensland, Australia. It forms part of the Petrie Terrace Heritage Trail.
History
Named after merchant, writer and printer William Caxton, the thoroughfare developed consid ...
, Australia
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Caxton, Cambridgeshire
Caxton is a small rural village and civil parish in the South Cambridgeshire district of Cambridgeshire, England. It is 9 miles west of the county town of Cambridge. In 2001, the population of Caxton parish was 480 people, increasing to 572 at th ...
, a village in Cambridgeshire, UK
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Caxton Gibbet, a knoll near the village
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Caxton Hall, a historic building in London, UK
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Caxton Building
The Caxton Building is a historic building completed in 1903 in Cleveland, Ohio.Saint-Élie-de-Caxton
Saint-Élie-de-Caxton is a municipality in the Mauricie region of the province of Quebec in Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and ...
, Quebec, Canada
Publishers
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Caxton Press (New Zealand)
Caxton Press is a printing company founded in 1935 in a partnership between Denis Glover and John Drew. The press printed the work of many New Zealand writers who have since become familiar names in New Zealand literature. It originally appeare ...
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Caxton and CTP Publishers and Printers
Caxton and CTP Publishers and Printers ( JSE: CAT) is a South African newspaper company.
History
The company was founded in 1902 by William Gindra and Edward Green, two Pretoria businessmen who started a small stationery and general printing f ...
, a publisher in South Africa
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Caxton Press (United Kingdom)
Frank Wawne (1900–1995) founded the Caxton Press at Shildon, County Durham, in the United Kingdom in 1930.
History
The business specialised in letterpress printing, and had two 19th-century, belt-driven, hand-fed printing presses, a Gordon and ...
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Caxton Press (United States)
Other uses
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Caxton Associates, an American investment firm
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Caxton Club
The Caxton Club is a private social club and bibliophilic society founded in Chicago in 1895 to promote the book arts and the history of the book. To further its goals, the club holds monthly (September through June) dinner meetings and luncheo ...
, an American social club in Chicago, Illinois, US
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Caxton College
Caxton College is a mixed private school located in Valencia (Spain) which offers complete education to students between 1 and 18 years of age, following the British National Curriculum in a multicultural environment.
History
Caxton College wa ...
, a private school in Valencia, Spain
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The Caxtons'', a novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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William Henry Rhodes
William Henry Rhodes (1822–1876) is known for his short story, ''The Case of Summerfield,'' which appeared in 1871 in a San Francisco newspaper under the pseudonym Caxton.
Early years
William Henry Rhodes was born in Windsor, North Carolina ...
or Caxton, American attorney
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William Caxton
William Caxton ( – ) was an English merchant, diplomat and writer. He is thought to be the first person to introduce a printing press into England, in 1476, and as a printer to be the first English retailer of printed books.
His parentage a ...
, an English printer, credited as being the first person to introduce the printing press to England in the 1470s
See also
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Caxton Press (disambiguation)
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