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
Caxton Gibbet is a small knoll on Ermine Street (now the A1198) in England, running between London and Huntingdon, near its crossing with the road (now the A428) between St Neots and Cambridge. There are tales of murderers being hanged ...
, a knoll near the village
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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 art ...
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 appear ...
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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 printin ...
, 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 a ...
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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, Sydney, Australia and Princeton, New Jersey. Caxton Associates ident ...
, 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
* Caxton College, a private school in Valencia, Spain
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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 '' Blackwo ...
'', 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 (publisher), printer to be the first English retailer of printed boo ...
, an English printer, credited as being the first person to introduce the printing press to England in the 1470s