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to print music. These musical notes, created using non-musical symbols, are often cited as the first instance of music printing in
England. For a long time, De Worde was mistakenly attributed with a songbook from 1530 (frequently named after him), which is considered one of the greatest examples of
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Some authors have therefore concluded that his real name was John Wynkyn (or Wynand) and that "de Worde" was "merely a place name," while others have concluded that his real name was Wynkyn (or Wynand) de Worde and that "John" was an added name: "It is… possible that John Wynkyn was an
Anglicized
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De Worde is generally credited for moving
English printing away from its late-medieval beginnings and toward a "modern" model of functioning. Caxton had depended on noble patrons to sustain his enterprise; while de Worde enjoyed the support of patrons too (principally
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His name lives on via the Wynkyn de Worde
Society, founded in the United Kingdom in 1957 for "people dedicated to excellence in all aspects of printing and the various stages of its creation, production, finishing and dissemination".
230:), he shifted his emphasis to the creation of relatively inexpensive books for a commercial audience and the beginnings of a mass market. Where Caxton had used paper imported from the Low Countries, de Worde exploited the product of
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alias devised by de Worde himself for occasional use—though why, and for what occasions, remains obscure."
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