Figure 347

Morris’s Troy Type: Kelmscott Press

From Morris’s Note on Kelmscott Press (scan)

1898

A black-letter great primer font, called the Troy Type, showing the influence of Shoeffer of Mainz, Zainer of Augburg, and Koburger of Nuremberg, although different from any of these, and first used in the Historyes of Troye, issued the same year.

See chapter 22