Note 271 — Chapter VI · THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY FOUNDRY.

Nichols, Lit. Anec., iv., 146. One of the first works printed in the recovered types was King Alfred’s Saxon version of Boethius’ Consolationis Philosophiæ Libri. Oxford, 1698, 8vo. It was edited by Mr. Christopher Rawlinson, from a transcript by Francis Junius among the MSS. at Oxford. Opposite the title is a head of Junius by Burghers, from a sketch by Van Dyck, in the Picture Gallery.