Literature in the other languages of Britain The most important work of literature surviving from the Middle Cornish period is "An Ordinale Kernewek" ("The Cornish Ordinalia"), a 9000-line religious drama composed around the year 1400. Three plays in Cornish known as the Ordinalia have survived from this period. The spread of printing affected the transmission of literature across Britain and Ireland. The first book printed in English, William Caxton's own translation of "Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye", was printed abroad in 1473, to be followed by the establishment of the first printing press in England in 1474. The establishment of a printing press in Scotland under
C.M.S. Press works in the languages of Malayalam, English, Tamil, Sanskrit, Latin and Syriac.C.M.S Press was the first polyglot printing office as well as the first book publishing house in Kerala. C.M.S. Press C.M.S Press, the first printing press in Kerala was established in 1821 by Rev. Benjamin Baily, a British missionary, at Chalukunnu in Kottayam district. The first Malayalam Book printed in Kerala, 'Cherupaitangalku Upakarardham Englishil ninnu Paribhashapedutiya Kadhakal',(which consists of short stories for children translated from English) by Benjamin Baily was printed at CMS press in Kottayam in 1824.C.M.S Press published complete Malayalam translation of the Bible in 1842 and