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12 Point Lining Roman No. 104
IN THE PREFACE to Ihs Tales of Troy, Caxton tells us, "miy pen is worn.
my hand weary and not steadfast, inine eyes diined with overmucl look-
ing on the white paper, and my courage not so prone and ready to labour
as it hath been, and that age creepethi on me daily and feeblethi all the
body, and also because I have proiised to divers gentlemein and to my
friends to address to them as hastily as I might the said book, therefore
I have practised and learned at my great charge and dispense to ordain
the said book in print after the manner and form as ye may see, and is
not written with pen and ink as other books be, to the end that every
man may have them at once, for all the books of this story here im-
prynted as ye may see were begun in one day and also finished i 0 one
day." The priniting press was the precious freight lie brought b ack to
Eiigland after aii absence of five-and-thirty years. Through the next
fifteen, at an age when other men look for ease and retirement, we see
him planging with characteristic energy into his new' occupation. His "red
pale." or heruldic shiell marked twith, a red bar far down the middle. iili't(d
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12 P'oint Harris Roman
In the preface to his Tales of Troy, Caxton tells us, "my pen is worn,
my hand weary and not steadfast, mine eyes dimmed with overmuch look-
ing on the white paper, and my courage not so prone and ready to labour
as it hath been, and that age creepeth on me daily and feebleth all the
body, and also because I have promised to divers gentlemen and to my
friends to address to them as hastily as I might the said book, therefore I
have practised and learned at my great charge and dispense to ordain the
said book in print after the manner and form as ye may see, and is not
written with pen and ink as other books be, to the end that every man may
have them at once, for all the books of this story here imprynted as ye may
see were begun in one day and also finished in one day." The printing
press was the precious freight he brought back to England after an ab-
sence of five-and-thirty years. Through the next fifteen, at an age when
other men look for ease and retirement, we see him plunging with char-
acteristic energy into his new occupation. His " red pale," or heraldic
shield marked with a red bar far down the middle, invited buyers to the
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Sniall Caps furnished only when ordered

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