Figure 362

Distel Type: Zilverdistel Press, The Hague

From a copy of Een Boecxken Gemaket van Suster Bertken die LVII Jaren Besloten Heeft Gheseten tot Utrecht in dye Buerkercke at the Newberry Library (scan)

1918

In Holland, there is evidence of the spread of the movement toward earlier letter-forms in the Distel type designed for J. F. van Royen’s Zilverdistel Press at The Hague, by Lucien Pissarro. This is intended to imitate old Netherlands writing. The narrowing of paragraph marks is a clever way of subduing an obstreperous character in such fonts.

See chapter 22