Caxton's TraceWilliam Caxton (ca. 14211492) and the printers who immediately followed him, Wynkyn de Worde and Richard Pynson, dominated early English printing. Surprisingly, their ideological impact on English literary historytheir transformation of a textual economy based in manuscript production, their strategic development of authorship, their collation of English literatureremains largely unrecognized, overshadowed by the work of later sixteenth century