BLACK, a founder, [364]

Black letter, early use of in England, [54], [97]; Caxton’s, [53], [87], [88], [89], [312], [343]; De Worde’s, [53], [89], [90], [91], [197], [199], [225], [239]; Faques’, [93]; fashions in, [54]; semi-gothic, [55], [94]; mixed with Roman, [45], [80]

——— Matrices:—Oxford, [148], [161]; Polyglot, [173], [177]; Andrews, [196], [312]; Grover, [197], [199], [225]; Head, [206], [241]; Mitchell, [206], [241]; ‘Anon.’, [207]; James, [54], [214], [217], [223], [228], [303]; Caslon, [54], [239], [240], [248], [254]; Wilson, [264]; Fry, [303], [310], [311], [334]; Thorne, [295]; Caslon III, [326]; Figgins, [340], [343]

Blades (Wm.) on early schools of typography, [9]; on page by page printing, [26]; Life of Caxton, [83]; on early letter-founding, [102]

BLAKE, GARNETT & CO., purchase Caslon IV’s foundry, [327]; specimen, [328]; Orientals, [328]

Blind type: Haüy’s, [78]; Lucas, [79]; Frere, [79]; Moon, [79]; Braille, [79]; Carton, [79]; Alston, [78], [79], [309]; Fry, [78], [79], [308], [309]

Block books, not typographical, [2]; latest printed, [2]

Block-printing, see Stereotype

Bodies, see Type-bodies

Bodman on wooden types, [4]