Note 117 — Chapter II · TYPE FACES (CONTINUED). THE LEARNED, FOREIGN, AND PECULIAR CHARACTERS.
Reading edition
The history of these famous types, the matrices of which for some years lay in pawn at Geneva, whence they were released at a cost of 3,000 livres in 1619, may be read in M. Bernard’s Les Estienne et les types grecs de François I er. Paris, 1856. 8vo.