│ 1485 │_Phalaridis Epistolæ_ │ c,f │ │ │ 1486 │_Liber Festivalis_ │ f,g │ │ │ ... │_Textus Alexandri_ │ d,f,g │ │ +───────+───────────────────────────────────+───────+──────────────────────+ │ † Misprint for 1478. │ +───────+───────────────────────────────────+───────+──────────────────────+ It will be noticed from the above list that type [a] was used solely by the first anonymous Oxford printer, and disappeared entirely as soon as Rood began to print in his own name. The letter is a Black of similar character, as Mr. Bradshaw points out, to that used by Zell and Guldenschaft at Cologne, and was probably brought thence to this country. The body corresponds closely to the present “English.” One peculiarity about type [a] is that in the mis-dated _Exposicio Simboli_ the capital [*Q] is always printed sideways ([*Q]), whereas in the two following books it appears correctly. During the two years that Rood printed under his own name alone, he made use of a compressed Black-letter of English body, type [b], with which, in the _Ales_ and _Lattebury_, he combined a larger Black, type [c], on Double English body for chapter-headings or initials. Type [b] disappeared entirely at the close of Rood’s solitary labours. Type [c], however, was preserved; we find it used in single letters, or very sparsely in two later works. [Illustration: 27. Colophon of _Lyndewode’s Constitutiones_. Oxford, 1482 (?). Showing the types [c], [d], [e], [f].] Rood and Hunte inaugurated their partnership by the introduction of two {139} new founts of Black-letter, types [d] and [e], or rather one fount having one size of capitals, and a small and large size of “lower-case,” all cast on the same body, about a Pica, and capable of being used interchangeably. Subsequently they used another double fount, types [f] and [g], cast in the same manner, [f] being the small, and [g] the large “lower-case,” with one size of capitals for both, all cast on a body closely corresponding to Great Primer. The character of this letter is decidedly Caxtonian, and suggests the possibility that at this stage of their labours the printers may have learned the art of making their own type. Type [f] had been in use for some time in combination with [c], [d] and [e], before type [g] appeared. The accompanying facsimile from the _Lyndewode_ shows types [c], [d], [e] and [f]. We thus find that the seven early Oxford types reduce themselves to four principal founts, and one fount of initial letter, of which the following table will briefly sum up the typographical details :