Figure 65
Caxton’s Type 7. Used in Indulgence, Westminster
From De Ricci’s The Census of Caxtons
1489
Caxton’s Type 7 was a small size of rough, compact English black-letter, and was discovered by Henry Bradshaw, the learned Cambridge bibliographer. In its delicacy is in somewhat French. It was used in an Indulgence brought out in 1489. Blades does not mention this type in his account of Caxton’s books, for he was never convinced that it was—as certainly seems to have been—used by Caxton.