Figure 352

Doves Type: Doves Press

From a copy of Catalogue Raisonné of Doves Press Books in the Newberry Library, 1908

1908

It is a very beautiful type, although its regularity, and the rigidity of the descender in the y, make it thin and spiky in appearance, and thus a little difficult to read; nor has it the agreeable “opulence” of the best Italian fonts.

See chapter 22