John Lettou or John of Lithuania ( lt, Jonas Lietuvis,

fl. ''Floruit'' (; abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for "they flourished") denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indicatin ...

1475–1483) was an English bookbinder and printer, presumably from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.R. Bideleux. ''A History of Eastern Europe: Crisis and Change''. Routledge, 1998 Seventeen books printed between 1475 and 1480 are attributed to the workshop of the ‘Indulgence Binder’ now identified as Lettou. The identification depends upon the use of waste strips cut from an indulgence of 1480 used in the binding of a Bible, printed by Gotz in 1480, which now belongs to Jesus College, Cambridge. Since this waste would have been found only in the workshop of the printer, and the indulgence was printed by Lettou, he must have been both the printer and the binder. John Lettou also published in partnership with

William de Machlinia William de Machlinia was an English printer who was active in the 15th century. Life He was born in Malines (Mechelen) in the Low Countries. He moved to London where, from 1483, he worked as an independent printer. Career Between 1483 and 1490 ...

and they published mostly law books. Lettou is also considered to have been a colleague of the Belarusian first book printer Francysk Skaryna.

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