ENGLISH BLACK LETTER. 53 for French fashions of types. Black Letter maintained its popularity in England and in the Netherlands after it had fallen into disuse in France. Obliged to go to Holland to get types, or the matrices for making types (for England had no type-foundry of note before that of John Day), English printers had to accept with the Dutch types some of the mannerisms of Dutch Eng n sh Biack punch-cutters. The English JF&W? ?">*??* with Flemish (Cfte Sfernfe ban in vis fcccfepn a cofce, mannerisms Black Letter of this period a *toute .flfcm anb a fa. does not seem to have been ^)?t*n Joban Oreuie a 0oot> fltbe <Cofte toofc anotfeer in feanDe ; influenced in any degree by ($fe)? tboujjbte notftpnge for to fle, ^ut 0ti?fl)o for to stanoe. German lasmons. The early __ . . , n (Cfccre tfeej? founfct sore to opDer, English Testaments and <too mile tea? anb more, T.., , . , Might neptfter other fearm done, Bibles were printed at Co- (Chemountenaunceofan^oure. and at Basle in letters Specimen of an Early English Black from matrices made in xvith century. ot (rerman torm, but the German form was never imitated by English printers. The preference shown by English readers of the xvith century for Black Letter is fairly indicated by its general employment in popular English books. The first edition (1525) of Tyndall's New Testament was in Black Letter. Black Letter Tyndall's Pentateuch of 1530 was partly in Roman, but it does not seem to have been an acceptable edition. Cover- dale's Bible of 1535 was in Black Letter. Cranmer's "Great Bible" of 1540, printed by Graf ton and Whitchurch, was in Black Letter. In this form of type were also printed the authorized prayer-books of the period. During the reign of
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