Figure 109
Address to the Reader: Stamperia Vaticana Specimen, Rome
From a copy in Harvard College Library (facsimile), Wellcome Collection (scan)
1628
For late sixteenth century and early seventeenth century types we have a valuable source-book in the 1628 specimen of the Stamperia Vaticana…the address Al Lettore…is set in an italic which has a few striking characters—the z and final e, for example.