Figure 154
Old Style Types used by Coignard, Paris
From a copy in the Boston Athenæum (facsimile), Internet Archive (scan)
1719
…a quarto volume by Antoine Houdart de la Motte, of the French Academy, entitled Fables Nouvelles, published in 1719 at Paris for Grégoire Dupuis, and printed by Coignad. The Discours sur la Fable is set “solid,” and this part of the book is reminiscent of the seventeenth century, as are the general make-up of preliminary matter, the rows of “flowers” separating the Fables, the heavy tail-pieces on wood, etc. But the Fables themselves are set in a delicately cut old style font, very much leaded, and thus the volume is transitional in style between seventeenth and eighteenth century French printing.