Figure 161
Page employing Firmin Didot’s Italic Type, from Didot’s Épître sur les Progrè de l’Imrimerie, printed by F. A. Didot, Paris
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1784
…a volume already alluded to (in a way a “specimen-book”) that shows some new Didot characters—the octavo Épître sur les Progrès de l’Imprimerie (1784), written by Pierre, eldest son of François Ambroise Didot, and printed in italic types designed by Firmin Didot, his second son. It employs for the poem a very light, monotonous italic.