John Day
✓ Source-basedrisingEnglish Protestant printer (1522-1584)
United KingdomLived 1522 to 1584 · aged 62John Day was an English printer. He specialised in printing and distributing Protestant literature and pamphlets, and produced many small-format religious books, such as ABCs, sermons, and translations of psalms.
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A page from Cuningham's Cosmographical Glasse printed by Day in 1559
Woodcut from Day's 1563 first printing of John Foxe's Actes and Monuments depicting the execution of Thomas Cranmer, 1556
Woodcut from John Foxe's Actes and Monuments depicting the burning of Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley in 1555
In 1939 the U.S. Post Office issued a stamp depicting Daye's printing press, commemorating the 300th anniversary of printing in colonial America.
John Day commemorative tablet, Edinburgh Central LibraryAbout this person
John Day was an English printer. He specialised in printing and distributing Protestant literature and pamphlets, and produced many small-format religious books, such as ABCs, sermons, and translations of psalms. He found fame, however, as the publisher of John Foxe's Actes and Monuments, also known as the Book of Martyrs, the largest and most technologically accomplished book printed in sixteenth-century England.
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