Figure 295
Type of folio Pope: Foulis, Glasgow
From a copy in Harvard College Library
1785
A “Foulis edition” of the best sort.… The effect of the pages of the poems is very noble and most readable, owing to the large size of fine type in which the text is set. The smaller types used for the contents, advertisements, quoted poetry, etc., become, as they descend in size, gray and monotonous, without the colour of Caslon’s or the clearness of Baskerville’s small types. But the effect, as a whole, is exceedingly distinguished.