[88] The Horace, printed in 1627, may be mentioned as one of the most interesting of these little typographical curiosities. The type is exactly the modern pearl body. The text is 2 5⁄6 inches in depth, and 1 1⁄2 inch wide.
[89] The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments. London, printed by John Field, 1653, 32mo. The inexperience of English compositors and correctors in dealing with this minute type is illustrated by the fact that Field’s Pearl Bibles are crowded with errors, one edition, so it is said, containing 6,000 faults.
[90] In one of the Bagford MSS. (Harl. 5915) appear, with the title “Mr. Ogilby’s Letters,” the drawings and proofs of this alphabet in capital and lower-case.
[91] See Specimen No. 21, post.
[92] Tradition has asserted that Hogarth designed Baskerville’s types.
[93] In recent years a French typographer, M. Motteroz, has attempted to combine the excellences of the Elzevir and modern Roman, with a view to arrive at an ideally legible type. The experiment is curious but disappointing. For though the new “typographie” of M. Motteroz justifies its claim to legibility, the combination of two wholly unsympathetic forms of letter destroys almost completely the beauty of each.
[94] Specimen Bibliorum Editionis Hebr. Gr. Lat. (folio sheet); no date.
[95] Bibliographical Decameron, ii, 381–2.
[96] Origine de l’Imprimerie de Paris, Paris, 1694, 4to, p. 110. Chevillier gives a curious instance of this tendency of the old printers to contract their words. The example is taken from La Logique d’Okam, 1488, fol., a work in which there scarcely occurs a single word not abbreviated. “Si
