Figure 249
Ornaments from Muestras, etc., Pedro, Ifern, Madrid
From Google Books (scan 1, scan 2)
1795
The next specimen is Muestras de los Caractéres que tiene en su Obrador Pedro Ifern, Fundidor en esta Corte. En la Imprenta de Fermen Thadeo Villalpando (1795). The prefatory note to this 16mo volume reads:
These printing characters are cast from the punches and matrices which were entirely the work of Don Eudaldo Pradell, first inventor of them in Spain, for which he was pensioned by His Majesty in the year 1764, which matrices are now the property of Pedro Ifern, being part of the dowry of his wife, Doña Margarita Pradell, and which are dealt in by virtue of the royal order following
—which is appended, dated August 16, 1790. Ifern’s specimen is a pretty little book…