John Bale’s valorization of print is well-remarked, evident in his own additions to the Laboryouse Journey and echoed by other fervent champions of the Reformation such as John Foxe. Yet in his Catalogus (1557), Bale includes a brief, curious entry on William Caxton, striking in both its ambivalences and silences around the man who inaugurated English print.1 Here, Caxton emerges not as a printer but as an historian, remembered primarily for his capacious and accretive historiographical work:
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