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I am going to read an open source book, one that is not particularly interesting, but one that is

hopefully boring enough to get you to sleep. Tonight's readings come from the old printer

and the modern press, written by Charles Knight and published in 1854.

It looks at the progress of the press and the English language in relation to its day.

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The Old Printer, Chapter 1 In the first book printed in the English language,

the subject which was the histories of Troy,

William Caxton, the translator of the work from the French, in his prologue or preface,

says by way of apology for his simpleness and imperfectness in the French and English languages.

In France, I was never and was born and learned mine

English in Kent in the wield where I doubt not is spoken as broad and rude

English as in any place of England. The Wield of Kent is now a fertile district, rich in cornland and pasture,

with farmhouses and villages spread over its surface,

intersected by good roads, and a railway running through the heart of it,

bringing the scattered inhabitants closer and closer to each other.

But at the period when William Kaxton was born and learnt his English in the wild. It was a wild district with a scanty

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