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500 and. Gerard Leeu, the most industrious printer of his time, began to print at Gouda in 1477, but he went to Antwerp in 1484, where he continued to print until his death in 1493. Imitating Verard of Paris, he gave his later years to the translation and printing of romances and popular books. In 1493, he began to print Caxton's Chronicle of England, in English and obviously for sale in England, but he died before the work was finished.

This is the order in which printing was established in Italy:

Cotton, in his Typographical Gazetteer, specifies thirty-seven other places in Italy in which printing was done before 1500.