#4705 Caxton 1 William Caxton brought the recently invented printing press to England in the 1470s and soon produced exquisite pages like this. Taken from ‘The Game and Playe of the Chesse’ which he printed in 1480, he had already translated and published The History of Troy (1473), then in Flemish or French, making it the first book ever printed in English, albeit in Bruges. While Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales  is considered the first work printed here in England on Caxton’