Figure 119
Roman and Italic Types showing “modern” tendency, used in Magalotti’s Saggi di Naturali Esperienze, etc.: Cecchi, Florence
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1691
Another work of a more scientific character was the second edition of Magalotti’s Saggi di Naturali Esperienze fatte nell’ Accademia del Cimento, Florence, a folio printed at the end of the seventeenth century (1691), and a fine example of its kind. The type shows a distinctly modern note. As for decoration, effective initials and tail-pieces coarsely engraved on wood are mixed with a series of grotesque headings and scientific plates cut on copper. It was really an important book, and was also intended to be a handsome piece of typography. It came from the Florentine printing-house of Giovanni Filippo Cecchi.