Figure 282
Lettre Batarde used in first complete edition of Chaucer: Godfrey, London
From a facsimile edition in the Boston Public Library, The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer and Others (scan of 1905 facsimile)
1532
…the first collected edition of Chaucer’s Works, printed by Thomas Godfrey of London. The text is composed in a French lettre batarde, but an English lettre de forme is used as an ornamental letter, for display on the very handsome bordered title-page, and elsewhere. The Preface is also set in it—and a line of roman letter is used at least once.