The Gothic or German type, So called because of its black appearance. The initial items of this book are now called “black letter,” sometimes called “Clarendon type.”
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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