Figure 68
Transitional Gothic Type used in Andreæ Antonius, Quæstiones super Duodecim Libros Metaphysicæ Aristotelis: Lettou, London, 1480
From a copy in the Library of Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, New York
1480
In the work of John Lettou we see this same mastery of composition; but there is a distinct foreign quality in the letter shown in his Quæstiones Antonii Andreæ. This type, in effect, resembles a form employed at Rome (possibly by the same printer) in 1478–79. It looks like the transitional gothic types which showed the influence of Roman letter-forms.