[165] D. Joannis Chrysostomi homiliæ duæ, nunc primum in lucem æditæ (Greek and Latin) a Joanne Cheko. Londini 1543. 4to.
[166] Ælfredi Regis Res Gestæ (without imprint or date), fol. The work was bound up and published with Walsingham’s Historia Brevis, printed by Binneman, and his Ypodigma Neustriæ, printed by Day, both in 1574. The text of the Ælfredi, though in Saxon characters, is in the Latin language.
[167] i.e., “And inasmuch as Day, the printer, is the first (and, indeed, as far as I know, the only one) who has cut these letters in metal; what things have been written in Saxon characters will be easily published in the same type.”
[168] Astle, in his History of Writing, p. 224, remarks: “Day’s Saxon types far excel in neatness and beauty any which have since been made, not excepting the neat types cast for F. Junius at Dort, which were given to the University of Oxford.”
[169] Parker, who, according to Strype (Life of Parker, London, 1711, fol., p. 278), extended his patronage to Binneman as well as to Day, and at whose expense the Historia was published, may possibly have claimed the disposal of founts specially cut for his own use, and in this manner secured for Binneman founts cast from Day’s matrices. Binneman is described as a diligent printer, who applied through Parker for the privilege of printing certain Latin authors, accompanying his petition by a small specimen of his typography, “which the Archbishop sent to the Secretary to see the order of his print. The Archbishop said he thought he might do this amply enough, and better cheap than they might be brought from beyond the seas, standing the paper and goodness of his print. Adding, that it were not amiss to set our own countrymen on work, so they would be diligent, and take good characters.”
[170] Timperley, Encyclopædia, p. 381.
[171] Life of Parker, pp. 382, 541.
[172] Typographical Antiquities, i, 656.
[173] Fidelis servi, subdito infideli Responsio. Lond. 1573. 4to.
[174] De Visibili Romanarchia. Londini, apud J. Dayum. 1572. 4to.