Figure 108
Roman types of Morosoini’s Historia Veneta: Pinelli, Venice
From a copy in Harvard College Library (facsimile), Google Books (scan)
1623
…Morosini’s Historia Veneta—an imposing folio of seven hundred pages, reminiscent in style of the early sixteenth century. The types are, in general effect, handsome—that of the preface being an irregular old style of course cut, while the text is set in a somewhat thin roman letter. As here employed they make massive pages, very solidly and well set.