The other divisions of the index have mostly
four-line woodcut initials, some of grotesque pattern. Five-line
space with guide-letter for the first initial of the text.
Ornaments of four patterns, repeated singly or in combination, are
used to lengthen out the frequent short end lines of paragraphs in
order to give more solidity to the appearance of the page. Three of
the same ornaments are found also on the title-page of Whitinton's
_Vulgaria_, printed by W. de Worde in 1521. Ames-Dibdin ii, 441.
In the present copy the index (sign. Aa. 2-6, Bb. 1-4) is separated from
the title (Aa. 1) and placed at the end of the volume. Name of _Joh[=e]s
Coningesby_ written in a sixteenth century hand on the first page of
both text and index. The device is the fourth of Pynson's seven devices
and was in use 1496-1513. Allusion is made in the colophon to an earlier
edition, no copy of which appears to be known. The work was reprinted by
Henry Smythe, London, 1546.
Richard Pynson, a Norman by birth, established himself in London about
1490, taking over, as there is good reason to believe, the business of
Machlinia, a printer of law books, for which his knowledge of
Norman-French especially fitted him.
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