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Caxton Street, Brisbane Caxton Street is a street in the Brisbane suburb of Petrie Terrace, Queensland, Petrie Terrace in Queensland, Australia. It forms part of the Petrie Terrace Heritage Trail. History Named after merchant, writer and printer William Caxton, the t ...
, Australia * Caxton, Cambridgeshire, a village in Cambridgeshire, UK ** Caxton Gibbet, a knoll near the village *
Caxton Hall Caxton Hall is a building on the corner of Caxton Street and Palmer Street, in Westminster, London, England. It is a Grade II listed building primarily noted for its historical associations. It hosted many mainstream and fringe political and a ...
, a historic building in London, UK *
Caxton Building The Caxton Building is a historic building completed in 1903 in Cleveland, Ohio, US. Emporis (includes photos) It was designed by Frank Seymour Barnum's F. S. Barnum & Co architectural firm. The 8-story steel-frame office building was constructed f ...
, a historic building in Cleveland, Ohio, US *
Saint-Élie-de-Caxton Saint-Élie-de-Caxton () is a municipality in the Mauricie region of the province of Quebec in Canada. Before January 15, 2005 it was known simply as Saint-Élie. Located in the foothills of the Laurentian Mountains, its territory is dotted wit ...
, Quebec, Canada


Publishers

* Caxton Press (New Zealand) * Caxton and CTP Publishers and Printers, a publisher in South Africa *
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 an ...
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Caxton Press (United States) Caxton Press (formerly known as Caxton Printers, a division of its parent company, The Caxton Printers Ltd.) is a book publisher located in Caldwell, Idaho, United States, founded in 1925. It is also a distributor of books from the University ...


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Caxton Associates Caxton Associates is a global macro hedge fund founded by Bruce Kovner in 1983 in New York City. The firm's headquarters are located in London, and also has offices in New York, Singapore, Monaco and Dubai. Caxton Associates identifies investme ...
, an American investment firm *
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 hosts monthly events, collaborates with institutions like the New ...
, an American social club in Chicago, Illinois, US *
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 * ''
The Caxtons ''The Caxtons: A Family Picture'' is an 1849 Victorian novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton that was popular in its time.Sutherland, JohnThe Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction p. 111 (1989) The book was first serialized anonymously in ''Blackwoo ...
'', a novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton * William Henry Rhodes or Caxton, American attorney *
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 Kingdom of England, England in 1476, and as a Printer (publishing), printer to be the first English retailer ...
, an English printer, credited as being the first person to introduce the printing press to England in the 1470s {{disambiguation