Figure 318
talic in P. Didot l’aîné’s Spécimen des Nouveaux Caractères, Paris
From Library of Congress (scan)
1819
The development of this Didot letter is shown…. Here we see a new style of French type in full swing. Pierre Didot says these fonts were engraved under his personal supervision by the type-cutter Vibert, whom he assisted (and probably inordinately tormented) for three hours a day for ten years to get things to his mind.