The printed book, its history, illustration, and adornment, from the days of Gutenberg to the present time (1887)
Bouchot, Henri, 1849-1906, Bigmore, E. C. (Edward Clements), 1838?-1899 · London, H. Grevel and co. · leaf 252
iicunabida* The first English printers used Gothic or blackletter. Caxton brought his first fount from Cologne,but that which he made afterwards for himself was ofthe same character. Wynkyn de Worde, Pynson, and * See above, figs. lo, ii, 12. EARLY TYPE-FOUNDERS. 24I their successors used the same… … Fig. 102.—Type-founder in tlie middle of the sixteenth century.Engraving by Jest Amman. branch, and among them in France, in the fifteenthcentur}, Simon de Collines, who engraved good Romancharacters about 1480. Later was Claude Garamond,of Paris, who died about 1561, a pupil of Geofifroy Tory,the…
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