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WILLIAM BLADES (1824-1890)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 31 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM BLADES (1824-1890)  ,
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English printer and bibliographer, was born at Clapham,
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London, on the 5th of December 1824 . In 184o he was apprenticed to his'
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father's printing business in London, being subsequently taken into partnership . The
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firm was afterwards known as Blades, East & Blades . His
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interest in printing led him to make a study of the volumes produced by Caxton's press, and of the early
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history of printing in England . His
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Life and Typography of William Caxton, England's First Printer, was published in 1861-1863, and the conclusions which he set forth were arrived at by a careful examination of types in the early books, each class of type being traced from its first use to the time when, spoilt by
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wear, it passed out of Caxton's hands . Some 450 volumes from the Caxton Press were ,thus carefully compared and classified in
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chronological order . In 1877 Blades took an active
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part in organizing the Caxton celebration, and strongly supported the foundation of the Library Association . He was a keen
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collector of old books, prints and medals . His publications relate chiefly to the early history of printing, the Enemies of Books, his most popular
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work, being produced in 1881 . He died at Sutton in Surrey on the 27th of
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April 1890 .

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