Figure 270
Baskerville’s Broadside Specimen (without border), Birmingham
From Providence Public Library Special Collections (scan)
1762
…shows eight varieties of roman—from double pica to brevier—and six sizes of italic. On this specimen the roman types appear better than the Addison. But as Latin is employed for the paragraph which displays them, this may be due to the many m’s, n’s, and u’s which Latin affords. The italic is better, though it is a very thin, starved sort of character. The italic capital K’s, and capital Q’s and Z’s, both in roman and italic, are interesting.