black letter

Had she only followed “black letter law,” the wife would have lost her home.

Others may deem the knotted subtleties of black-letter a sorry recompense for the "wild crash and tumult of the fray."

I have no manner of natural taste for study, and poring, and expounding, and black-letter work.

Do not let it hence be said that black letter lore is the only fashionable pursuit of the present age of book collectors.

The paper was to be of hand-made linen, from the Kelmscott Mills; the type black-letter, with rubricated initials.

This book is the true history of his reign, and would be worth to us fifty black-letter Caxtons.