Figure 210
Script Type: Enschedé’s Proef van Letteren, Haarlem
From Noord-Hollands Archief (scan)
1768
An elaborate specimen prefaced by a portrait of Enschedé and other engravings. An introduction, dated Haarlem, 1768, and signed by J. Enschedé, is printed in a very ugly cursive script letter—a fearful decline from the splendid cursive fonts in use a hundred and fifty years earlier. This followed by a portrait of J. M. Fleischman, their type-cutter. Then begins a series of types—capital letters in roman and italic of a very Dutch and ugly cut, a series of shaded capital letters, and a great variety of faces of roman and italic types, in some of which the size of the body of lower-case letters is unduly large in proportion to the capitals.