154 Mr. Figgins, apparently misled by the irregularities in form consequent on the touching-up of Type No. 2, concluded that the whole of the types in which this book was printed were cut separately by hand.

155 The General History of Printing. London, 1732, 4to, p. 343.

156 Among the rubbish of James’s foundry, Mores, who evidently credited the legend, states that he discovered some of the punches from which the two-line Great Primer matrices had been struck. “They are,” he observed, “truly vetustate formâque et squalore venerabiles, and we would not give a lower-case letter in exchange for all the leaden cups of Haerlem” (Dissertation, p. 76). Hansard, in 1825, appears also to have believed in the survival of De Worde’s punches, the form of which he professed to recognise among the Black-letter shown in Caslon’s specimen-book of 1785.

157 The first Roman, or (as it was sometimes called) White-letter, noticed by Herbert in any of De Worde’s books was in the Whitintoni de heteroclytis nominbus, 1523.

158 Roberti Wakefeldi . . . oratio de laudibus et utilitate trium linguarum Arabice, Chaldaicæ et Hebraice atque idiomatibus Hebraicis quæ in utroque testamento inveniuntur. Londini apud Winandum de Vorde (1524). 4to.

159 This is probably the first appearance of Italic type in England.

160 Pynson was not the first English printer who “put out” his work to foreign typographers. Caxton, in 1487, employed W. Maynyal of Paris to print a Sarum Missal for him; and one book, at least, is known to have been printed for De Worde by a Parisian printer.

161 Oratio in Pace nuperrimâ, etc. Impressa Londini, Anno Verbi incarnati MDXVIII per Richardum Pynson, Regium Impressorem. 4to.

162 Thomæ Linacri de emendatâ structurâ Latini sermonis. Londini, apud Richardum Pinsonum. 1524. 4to.

163 i.e., “Greeting to the Reader: Of thy candour, reader, excuse it if any of the letters in the Greek quotations are lacking either in accents, breathings or proper marks. The printer was not sufficiently furnished with them, since Greek types have been but lately cast by him; nor had he the supply prepared necessary for the completion of this work.”

164 Redman, who began to print about 1525, in Pynson’s old house, is supposed to have succeeded to the types of his predecessor. His edition of Littleton’s Tenures (no date) shows the Roman letter in Long Primer body.

165 D. Joannis Chrysostomi homiliæ duæ, nunc primum in lucem æditæ (Greek and Latin) a Joanne Cheko. Londini 1543. 4to.

166 Ælfredi Regis Res Gestæ (without imprint or date), fol. The work was bound up and published with Walsingham’s Historia Brevis, printed by Binneman, and his Ypodigma Neustriæ, printed by Day, both in 1574. The text of the Ælfredi, though in Saxon characters, is in the Latin language.

167 i.e., “And inasmuch as Day, the printer, is the first (and, indeed, as far as I know, the only one) who has cut these letters in metal; what things have been written in Saxon characters will be easily published in the same type.”

168 Astle, in his History of Writing, p. 224, remarks: “Day’s Saxon types far excel in neatness and beauty any which have since been made, not excepting the neat types cast for F. Junius at Dort, which were given to the University of Oxford.”

169 Parker, who, according to Strype (Life of Parker, London, 1711, fol., p. 278), extended his patronage to Binneman as well as to Day, and at whose expense the Historia was published, may possibly have claimed the disposal of founts specially cut for his own use, and in this manner secured for Binneman founts cast from Day’s matrices. Binneman is described as a diligent printer, who applied through Parker for the privilege of printing certain Latin authors, accompanying his petition by a small specimen of his typography, “which the Archbishop sent to the Secretary to see the order of his print. The Archbishop said he thought he might do this amply enough, and better cheap than they might be brought from beyond the seas, standing the paper and goodness of his print. Adding, that it were not amiss to set our own countrymen on work, so they would be diligent, and take good characters.”

170 Timperley, Encyclopædia, p. 381.

171 Life of Parker, pp. 382, 541.

172 Typographical Antiquities, i, 656.

173 Fidelis servi, subdito infideli Responsio. Lond. 1573. 4to.

174 De Visibili Romanarchia. Londini, apud J. Dayum. 1572. 4to.

175 De Antiquitate Britannicæ Ecclesiæ. Londini in ædibus Johannis Daij. 1572. Fol.

176 An illustration of this maybe seen in Vautrollier’s Latin Testaments, where both Roman and Italic are exquisitely cut founts, but not being of uniform gauge, mix badly in the same line.