Figure 296
Title-page of Letters of Charlotte, London
From a copy in Harvard College Library, Internet Archive (scan)
1786
…the sort of book Foulis made popular—pretty, but “faded.” Such feeble types led to the adoption of the heavy fonts of Thorne early in the next century. Something had to be done, and “fat blacks” were administered to fainting ladies like Charlotte, as a sort of rough-and-ready first aid to the injured.