Figure 27
Jenson’s Roman Type used in Eusebius, De Præparatione Evangelica, Venice
From a copy in the collection of Dr. Charles L. Nichols, Worcester, Massachusetts (facsimile), Eusebius, Caesariensis: Praeparatio evangelica (scan)
1470
The first roman characters, which were used by John de Spire, and for which De Spire’s death 1470 lifted the restrictions on on roman types from other Venetian printing-houses, and Jenson produced in that year his famous roman letter. The tractate De Præparatione Evangelica of Eusebius is generally considered his first book.