Figure 85
Pages of Jacobi’s Iris, Düsseldorf, 1775
From Könnecke’s Bilderatlas zur Geschichte der deutschen Nationalliteratur (facsimile), Munich Digitization Center (scan)
1764
As early as 1775 a general desire for light types had influenced the forms of fraktur itself, as in J. G. Jacobi’s Iris, evidently imitating—very unsuccessfully—contemporary French printing.