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 EAELY BOMAN TYPES. 21 Letter, but it has the merit of a proper space of white between the lines. It does not seem to have been a popular type, for when these printers went to Rome, they produced another form of Roman type which was not so black, nor so condensed, but it was not more pleasing. R. ebattuf Familiartf rncuT ad me fcnpfit ce exquififTc quibuf i Io/ cif efT^molefteq! ferre cp me pp/ ter uahcudi nem tua cu ad urbem accefciflfe non ut diffef : et hoc cc/ Sweinheym and Pannartz, Rome, 1467. From their edition of Cicero. Next year, 1467, came to Rome a rival German printer, Printed in Ulrich Hahn, who, in compliment to Italian tastes, also U67toi8. printed his first book in an imitation of Roman letter. rncro fctnemoria ueterarepetenti perbeatifa ifTe. Q^frater till uidcri folet qvu in optima RE. PV : quom &; honoribus &rerum gcf tar am. gloria, f lor ercnt cum. uite curfum Ulrich Hahn, Rome, 1468. From his edition of Cicero. A very bad imitation it was; showing just as distinctly the influences of a Grerman-like preference for the Grothic form. It was no improvement on the Roman of his rivals.