Figure 238
Type used in Bayer’s De Numis Hebræo-Samaritanis: Monfort, Valencia
From a copy in the Boston Public Library (facsimile), Google Books (scan)
1781
The book most quoted as an example of Monfort’s printing is Perez Bayer’s learned Latin work on Hebrew-Samaritan coins…a quarto printed in 1781. The type is about fourteen-point in size, well leaded, with some Hebrew introduced. The notes are set in smaller type, in double column, at the bottom of the page. Here and there, small engraved plates of coins are inserted in the text with great taste. There are also a few full-page plates. The book ends with notes, set in a handsome roman type, and an index.