is 1464; for a note in the copy of the _Duranti Rationale divinorum Officiorum_ in the library at Basle, states that the book was bought in that year for the University. If this date is authentic, it follows that Strasburg was the first place where Roman type was used. [12] This indulgence had been noticed by Bernard, _De l’Origine de l’Imprimerie_, vol. ii. pp. 108, 109. The next important printer at Strasburg is George Husner, who began in 1476 and printed up till 1498. His types may be recognised by the capital H, which is Roman, and has a boss on the lower side of the cross-bar. John Gruninger, who began in 1483, issued some beautifully illustrated books, the most celebrated being the _Horace_, _Terence_, and _Boethius_, and Brandt’s _Ship of Fools_. He and another later Strasburg printer, Knoblochzer, share with Conrad Zeninger of Nuremberg the doubtful honour of being the most careless printers in the fifteenth century. Albrecht Pfister was printing at Bamberg as early as 1461, and his first dated book, Boner’s _Edelstein_, was issued on 4th February of that year. He used but one type, a discarded fount from Mainz which had been used in printing the thirty-six line Bible and the other books of that group. By many he is credited with being the printer of the thirty-six line Bible,—a theory which a short examination of the workmanship of his signed books would go far to upset. Pfister seems to have been more of a wood engraver than a printer, relying rather on the attractive nature of his illustrations than on the elegance of his printing. We can attribute to him with certainty nine books, with one exception all written in German, and with two exceptions all illustrated with woodcuts. Mr. Hessels is of opinion that certain of these books ought to be placed, on account of their workmanship, before the _Boner_ of 1461; as, for instance, the _Quarrel of a Widower with Death_, in which the lines are very uneven. There are certain peculiarities noticeable in Pfister’s method of work which occur also in the _Manung widder die Durke_, a prognostication for 1455, preserved in the Royal Library, Munich, and in the _Cisianus zu dutsche_ at Cambridge, the most marked being the filling up of blank spaces with an ornament of stops. The curious rhyming form of these calendars, and the dialect of German in which they are written, resemble exactly the rhyming colophon put by Pfister to the Boner’s _Edelstein_. In all three cases the ends of the lines are not marked, but the works are printed as prose.