Canterbury was the last of the provincial towns to start a press, and its first book was an edition of the _Psalter_ printed in 1549. One or two early writers, however, quoted a book printed there about 1525. The title runs: _A goodly narration how St Augustine the Apostle of England raysed two dead bodies at Longcompton, collected out of divers authors, translated by John Lidgate, Monke of Bury_. Printed at St Austens at Canterburie in 4to. No copy of the book is at present known, but it is conjectured that, like another book connected with Canterbury, _The history of King Boccus and Sydracke_, it may have been printed by a London printer, “at the coste and charge of Dan Robert Saltwoode, monke of St Austen’s at Cantorbery.” John Mychell, the first printer, seems to have begun his career in London, where he printed two books, the _Life of St Margaret_ and the _Life of St Gregory’s mother_, at a printing office with a long and interesting history, _The long shop in the Poultry_. He probably worked there between the tenancies of Richard Kele, who left it in 1546, and his apprentice Alde, who worked there later. Mr Allnutt, in an article on Provincial Presses, asserts that he quitted Canterbury for London in the reign of Queen Mary and quotes these two books as proof, but that would mean that he came to London after 1555, in which case we might expect to find some mention of him in the Stationers’ Registers, and at that time, too, the long shop in the Poultry was occupied by another printer. I think it may be taken for certain that he went from London to Canterbury. Mychell’s first Canterbury book, the _Psalter or psalms of David after the translation of the great Bible_, printed in 1549, is an extremely rare book. The only copy quoted by bibliographers is one which was in Dr Lort’s sale in 1791. This copy passed to Lord Spencer and is now in the Rylands Library. It was reissued again in 1550 and a copy is in the University Library. The only known copy of the other book issued in 1550, John Lamberd’s _Treatise of predestination_, is also in the University Library. In 1552 and 1553 there were at least three issues of a _Breviat Chronicle_ compiled or at any rate edited by Mychell himself. The nine undated books which he issued were mainly theological and controversial. One of these, entitled _Newes from Rome concerning the blasphemous sacrifice of the papisticall Masse_, was printed for E. Campion. It is curious, considering the title of the book, that this E. Campion was in all probability the London bookseller of the time, Edmund Campion, the father of the celebrated Jesuit martyr. Two others are quoted by Herbert, _A short epistle to all such as do contempne the marriage of us poor preestes_ and _The spirituall matrimonye betweene Chryste, and the Soul_, no copies of either being at present known, though a title-page of the second is among the Bagford fragments.