Figure 324
Borders: Léger’s Spécimen des Divers Caractères, Paris
1831–1844
He brought out, some time between 1831 and 1844, a quarto volume of types and ornaments…which, according to its compiler, represented the results of twenty-five years’ labour. The ornaments and borders are distinctly light in effect, black backgrounds having mostly disappeared. The types, less excellent than the ornaments, are still in the Didot style.