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Main (Thompson) Library location: North wing -- Second window. Originally from Normandy, Richard Pynson (1449 - c.1529) integrated the methods of his French contemporaries into his work in England. It is likely that he contracted his printing firm in London from English printer William de Machlinia

Main (Thompson) Library location: North wing -- Third window. Little is known about the early life and schooling of Robert Copland (c. 14-- – 1548). Based on his work with William Caxton and Wynkyn de Worde, however, it is clear that Copland received a fine education, specifically in French and

Main (Thompson) Library location: Class of '51 Reading Room. Sébastien Nivelle (c.1523 – 1603) was born in Troyes, France circa 1523 to the stationer Jean Nivelle. He first began work in Paris for the press of Charlotte Guillard, one of the first documented female printers, in 1549, and in the next

Main (Thompson) Library location: South wing -- Fifth window. Sixtus Riessinger (c.14-- – c.1505) matriculated at the University of Freiburg in 1462, and became a priest in Strasbourg shortly thereafter. As was customary for priests, he learned the trade of printing during his ministry from Henry

Main (Thompson) Library location: South wing -- End window. Theodosius Rihel (c.15-- – 1608) was active as a printer in Strasbourg beginning in 1555, when he and his brother Josias took over the printing press of their father Wendelin. Before their father's retirement, they printed their first book

Main (Thompson) Library location: South wing -- First window. Thielman Kerver (c. 14-- – c. 1524/5) was born in Coblentz, Germany and moved to Paris to work as a bookseller at the Sign of the Unicorn. There, with printer Jean Philippe, he became interested in the publication of Books of Hours. In

Main (Thompson) Library location: South wing -- Third window. Thierry Martens (c. 1446 - 1534) was born in Aalst, Belgium in 1446 and received his early education from the Guillelmites. Various manuscript colophons indicate that he probably studied under Girardus de Lisa in Venice. In 1473, Martens

Main (Thompson) Library location: South wing -- Fourth window. Thomas Anshelm (c.1465 – c. 15--) was born in Baden circa 1465, and twenty years later he matriculated at the University of Basel. By 1488, he issued his first production, Epistolae et Evangelia, in Strasbourg. In the following decade

Main (Thompson) Library location: South wing -- First window. Valentin Fernandez (c.14-- – c.1519) was born in Moravia, but spent most of his life in Lisbon, where he pursued a career as a printer and translator. In 1495, he printed a Portuguese edition of Vita Christi with fellow printer Nicolaus

Main (Thompson) Library location: North wing -- First window. The son of a resident of Leipzig, Valentin Schumann (c. 14-- – 1542) began printing in 1514, the year he produced Johannes Reuchlin's Phorcensis Scenica Progymnasmata. His early works demonstrate a focus on classical and humanist

Main (Thompson) Library location: South wing -- First window. Walter Chepman (c. 1471 – 1528) was born circa 1471 in Ayr, Scotland and moved to Edinburgh in 1493, where he pursued a career as a merchant alongside Andrew Halyburton. He concurrently began his career as a notary to the royal household

Main (Thompson) Library location: Class of '51 Reading Room. William Caxton (c. 1422 - c. 1492) was born in Kent and, by 1438, was apprenticed to a mercer in London. He eventually settled in Bruges, where his business prospered. In 1463, he became Governor of the English Nation of Merchant

Main (Thompson) Library location: Class of '51 Reading Room. Wygand Koeln (c. 14-- - c.15--) was active in Geneva as early as 1520, when he printed his first known work, Missale Parvum for Gabriel Pomard, a printer and publisher in Geneva. During Koeln's career, Geneva was becoming a place of refuge

Main (Thompson) Library location: End window -- North wing. While much of his early life remains unknown, it is clear that Wynkyn de Worde (c.14-- – 1534) emigrated from his supposed home in the region of Alsace-Lorraine and began printing in England toward the end of the 15th century, primarily