The earliest writers on the form and proportion of letters,—Dürer[54] in 1525, Tory[55] in 1529, and Ycair[56] in 1548,—though using terms to distinguish the different faces of letter, were apparently unaware of any distinguishing names for the bodies of types. Tory, indeed, mentions Canon and Bourgeoise; but in both cases he refers to the face of the letter; and Ycair’s distinction of “teste y glosa” applies generally to the large and small type used for the text and notes respectively of the same work.[57] In England, type-bodies do not appear to have been reduced to a definite scale much before the end of the sixteenth century. Mores[58] failed to trace them further back than 1647; but in a Regulation of the Stationers’ Company, dated 1598,[59] Pica, English, Long Primer, and Brevier are mentioned by name as apparently well-established bodies at that time; and in a petition to the same Company in 1635,[60] Nonpareil and “two-line letters” are mentioned as equally familiar. Moxon, our first writer on the subject, in his _Mechanick Exercises_, in 1683, {33} described ten regular bodies in common use in his day, and added to his list the number of types of each body that went to a foot, viz.:― Pearl 184 to a foot Nonpareil 150 〃 Brevier 112 〃 Long Primer 92 〃 Pica 75 〃 English 66 〃 Great Primer 50 〃 Double Pica 38 〃 2-line English 33 〃 French Canon 17 1/2 〃 “We have one body more,” he adds, “which is sometimes used in England; that is, a Small Pica: but I account it no great discretion in a master-printer to provide it, because it differs so little from the Pica, that unless the workmen be carefuller than they sometimes are, it may be mingled with the Pica, and so the beauty of both founts may be spoiled.” In this sentence we have the first record of the introduction of irregular bodies into English typography, an innovation destined very speedily to expand, and within half a century increase the number of English bodies by the seven following additions: Minion 132 to a foot Bourgeois 100 〃 Small Pica 76 〃 Paragon 46 〃 2-line Pica 37 1/2 〃 2-line Great Primer 25 〃 2-line Double Pica 19 〃