Figure 39
First Roman type used in Lyons: Du Pré
From Claudin’s Histoire de l’Imprimerie en France au XVe et au XVIe Siècle (facsimile), Juuenalis cum commento Domitii Calderini (scan)
1490
Roman characters were not used in Lyons until 1490, Jean du Pré employing them in his annotated Latin text of the Satires of Juvenal, issued in the last month of that year. Proctor things these types have a Gothic look. They appear to be a very fine form of transitional roman character.