biography
pronunciation:
[werd]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (?–?1535)
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| biography:
| Printer, born in The Netherlands or in Alsace. He was a pupil of Caxton, and in 1491 succeeded to his stock-in-trade. He made great improvements in printing and typecutting, and was the first in England to use italic type. |
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