[27] Dibdin’s Library Companion, page 716.
[28] Dibdin’s Library Companion (1825), page 47.
[29] Dibdin’s Library Companion, page 613.
[30] Straus, Robert Dodsley, pages 289-292.
[31] Baskerville’s work was greatly admired on the Continent, especially in France. He was paid several very handsome compliments in Pierre Didot’s “Épître sur les Progrès de l’Imprimerie,” published in Paris in 1784; and in the notes to the poem attention is given to his method of printing and to his glossy paper,—“qui fatigue la vue.” To make such paper, says Didot rather loftily, “is not a secret, and if it ever becomes one, will not be worth finding out.” This opinion did not, however, prevent the Didots from attempting to imitate it.
[32] Dibdin’s Greek and Latin Classics (1827), vol. ii, pages 555 et seq.
[33] Harwood’s Classics, page 176. See also Dibdin’s Classics, volume ii, page 111.
[34] Dibdin’s Library Companion, page 766.
[35] Hansard’s Typographia, page 311.
[36] Horne’s An Introduction to the Study of Bibliography, vol. i, page 253.