CARACTERE DE MUSIQUE. Ah! ahquel tourment pour un coeur ten = dre, d'at = ten=dre le mo= ment, qui doit le rendre heureux et con tent. Ah! ah quel tour= * ment pour un coeur ten =dre, d'at= ten = dre le mo=ment, qui doit le rendre heureux et con-tent, qui doit le 215. Rosart's Music Types, from his Épreuve, Brussels (after 1760) W ... chantment, old-fashioned, after the foundation of the Batavian Republic, and had to give place to characters of a more modern cut. . . . The name of Fournier, formerly so well-known among us, had already been eclipsed at this period by that of Didot. What Fleischman had formerly been [to Dutch type-founding] Didot was at that epoch."1 There was not a single foundry which did not try to advertise itself by Didot types or copies of them, and this was the case not only in Holland, but in Germany, and indeed throughout Europe. Those who recall the end of the chapter on German types will remember how true this was of the output of Unger. So, too, the eighteenth century in Dutch typography closes under the influence of the faults and merits of the great French founder. England was largely supplied with Dutch printing types in the seventeenth century, as we know from the James correspondence quoted in Rowe Mores' A Dissertation upon English Typographical Founders and Founderies, and from letters about Bishop Fell's gift of types to the University Press, Oxford. The Fell types were procured in Holland about 1693, through the intervention of Rev. Thomas Marshall, preacher to the English merchants in Holland and afterwards Dean of Gloucester; and negotiations consumed some four years, largely because Marshall did not know a punch from a matrix! Moxon, the first English writer on type-founding, says that the "common consent of Book-men assign the Garland to the Dutch-Letters," and he himself greatly admired them. In the second paper of his Exercises he gives a very oft-quoted description of them, which I spare the reader. Moxon particularly praised Van Dyck's | 'Enschede's Fonderies de Caractères, etc., pp. 382–386. 'Moxon's Mechanick Exercises, or the Doctrine of Handy-Works applied to the Art of Printing, Numb. II, ¶ 2, Of Letter; also pls. 11-17. |