Figure 191
François Gando’s Italique, goût nouveau, cut in 1754: Épreuves de Caractères, Gando, Paris
1760
The Gando specimen of 1760 contains most of the material which appeared in Lamesle’s book, with some rearrangements and additions. The order of the type is reversed, the largest sizes being displayed first. The second type shown is a gros canon italique nouveau goût. What this goût was, one begins to see in the gros parangon italique numéro viii, petit parangon italique numéro xi, or the cicéro italique engraved by Gando le jeune in 1754. These wiry, vulgar types were a new and bad yet popular element in a printer’s stock.