Figure 126
Types showing “modern” feeling, used in Sardini’s Storia Critia di Nicolao Jenson: Bonsignori, Lucca
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1796
…printed at Lucca.… In this the roman and italic type, though still old style, shows a distinct tendency toward what we now call a “modern face,” and also a certain narrowing of the character in the interests of condensation—a bad feature, but one increasingly followed in the next century.