1664 S. Bradstreet et al. Let. 10 Sept. in R. Boyle (2001) II. 319 We hope to have all bookes for the Indians use printed upon easier tearmes By our one printer, especially If it please your Honours to send over a fount of pica letters Roman & Italica.
1755 (Flyleaf) A Large Quarto Bible, printed on a new Pica Letter and Royal Paper.
1998 38 335 Nathaniel Butter's 1608 quarto edition of King Lear..: set in larger type than it had ever appeared before..with the possessive pronoun ‘H I S’ set in italicized and widely spaced capital pica letters.