The type is of a black letter character, not unlike that in which the Nova Statuta were printed, and is distinguishable by the peculiar shape of the capital M.
Bibliographers and scholars name certain old style forms ofblack letter Gothic, as representing the true Gothic character.
This book also displays all three forms of type--black letter, Roman, and Italic.
As we have already noticed in connection with the Mazarin Bible, the forms of the types were copied from the Gothic or black letter characters in which Bibles, psalters, and missals were then written.
It is in the English language, and printed in black letter.
The Mazarin Bible is in Latin, and printed in the characters known as Gothic, or black letter.
The right-hand page is in French, the left in English; the former is in Roman characters, the latter in black letter.
The book consists of sixteen leaves of the folio size of the time, in black letter, with signatures A-B in sixes and C in fours.
As in the French Schoolemaister, French and English are arranged on opposite pages, the French in Roman characters, and the English in black letter.
Partly from an old copy in black letter, and partly from the recitation of an old lady.
It is in double columns, black letter, with the device of the printer on the reverse of the last leaf.
The impression is in black letter, printed in long lines, with rather coarse wood-cuts.
The first is printed at Paris for Bonfons, in double columns, black letter, with rude wood-cuts.
The figure itself is taken from a ballad, in black letter, entitled "The mad, merry Pranks of Robin Good Fellow.
There was a pamphlet, being the Definition and Act, the latter printed in black letter.
When ballads were intended for the exclusive use of the ordinary ballad-buyers they were printed in black letter, a type that was retained for this purpose for more than a century after it had gone out of use for other purposes.
Utterson printed "Select Pieces of Early English Poetry, republished principally from early printed copies in Black Letter.
Newton in 1575, quarto, black letter, London--if you are so lucky as to come across it.
The English is in black letter, and the Latin in Roman, in the same order as in the preceding edition.
The Latin portion is in verse, printed in Roman letter, with marginal notes in black letter, of a very small size, and the English in prose.
The English part, in black letter, is entitled: The englysshe of Mancyne apon the foure cardynale vertues.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "black letter" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
