Figure 135

Lettres de Forme, Lettres de Somme, and Ancienne Batarde shown by Fournier le jeune

From Manuel Typographique (scans)

1764

Although the first press set up in Paris in 1470 employed roman types, French printing for some years thereafter was executed from gothic fonts—lettre de forme, lettre de somme, and lettre batarde.

See chapter 14