Noted with forgiveness begged.
"The printing press was available at roughly the same time to all of Europe; certainly it alone cannot account for the difference between an Italian’s immediate immersion in the image and the Englishman’s detachment from it."
And I was in no way implying that it is the exclusive explanation, merely submitting it as one of many factors; however, the spread of the press was largely a phenomenon which initially expanded north and west:
