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New Zealand Tablet, Volume V, Issue 217, 22 June 1877, Page 15

An interesting centenary festival is to be celebrated in England during the next few months — the four hundredth anniversary of the introduction of printing into the country. The first book printed in England in the English tongue is dated 1477. Two •works in English had previously been printed at Bruges. Flanders was one of the earliest seats of manufactures, commerce, and that sort of civilization in the West; long before, and long after, that date, it was far wealthier and more enlightened than England.