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 52 HISTOKIC FEINTING TYPES. Types used by Caxton in 1477. i* franffato ou* of Jtenf info (Qntoint er0 forb of |kafes of ^e 3ffe of Tl?gg^ + efenbour anb of t$t fiege @poffofiqu^ tic. tern; me T3?tfftatn Ca^^on ^e ^ear of out fotb nt* cccc, Specimen of the types used by Caxton in 1477. These types were cut by Vincent Figgins, of London, in 1855, and used by him in a fac-simile edition of "The Game and Playe of the Chesse." French was still the language of its court and its cultivated society. It is not surprising that the French printers of England should join with English readers in a preference E>f tlje Craft of ^otnttng* cijerbe fiue tnancr prayer-books. ^Oltt^0, dUD lttflOU0 ttlOft Ufl&C Bltl) CUUU^ng a^en : t^e trj^icl),, tf tlje? be tneil ufiD 3 mafte tl)e Cen^ ten0 ber^ Ug^t, anD fy to unuetttontJ, botl) to tlje BeDeranDtl)e^erer,attn t^e^be t^efe : Otrpl, Conic, ?aarent^eCt0, ^la^nt ^o^nt anD Slnterrogattf* a airgil 10 a ^clenner ^tr^fte : len^nge tyrtoarne tl)t0 toife / be tofc?n?ttge a L^l ffiort reft, twfyout an^ perf etne0 ytt of >enten& Specimen of an early English Black from matrices made in xvith century.
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