ENGLISH BLACK LETTER. 51 The printers who followed Caxton Wynkyn de Worde, Richard Pynson, and William Faques were of French birth Confer oyue opttr*fperirfu* cofcue cotfcg HUm Qtlt ft* Typesof John Brito. attic 2(>tamt?5 arfe^ nutto mon Qjnftrunteth qttoqf no)) minus Types of John Brito, Bruges, 1481. and inheritors of French tastes. The form of letters which they used closely resemble the Black Letter types of print- ers at Paris and Rouen, in which cities books of devotion OH htt ^bmmce noiirri^ tj atimme fin guficnetf ^i/f oiw^ tc f rop0 / vi uo cfc tx^artc iilifft qnc tx jfaeflc fairs vtiij cudl j[c Jttbufftc rtp tu U c meat te f tc0 no Bte cf itccr lJhteu)r p lacfmcr fni/ctir be towfcc Early form of Flemish type. Fac-simile of the types of the first edition of " Recueil des Histoires de Troye," printed before Caxton's edition in English. were largely printed to be sold on English soil. The laws of England were then officially printed in French, and
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