Figure 155
Fournier le jeune’s Types: Didot, Paris
From a copy in the Harvard College Library, Œuvres de Jean-Baptiste Rousseau (1671–1741) (scan)
1743
The Œuvres de Jean-Baptiste Rousseau (1671–1741), printed at Paris (dated Brussels) in 1743 by Didot (probably François), in three large quarto volumes, is in its massive qualities almost a seventeenth century edition, but it has an element of taste about it that the seventeenth century did not afford. Printed entirely in a large size of masculine and nervous old style roman type, splendidly placed on ample quarto pages, and really adorned with decorations by Cochin of a delightful suavity of design, it is a superb book. The italic employed for occasional verse is an interesting font. The volumes were printed from type made by Fournier le jeune, who is here styled Simon Pierre.