Figure 26
John and Wednelin de Spire’s Roman Type, Venice
From De Civitate Dei of 1470 in Harvard College Library (facsimile), Munich Digitization Center (scan)
1470
In the font used in the Venice editions of Cicero’s Epistulæ ad Familiares and Pliny’s Historia Naturalis of John de Spire, printed in 1469, and the De Civitate Dei printed in the next year by John and Wendelin de Spire.