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 DUTCH TYPES. 45 of which a fac-simile is shown on the preceding page, were probably never shown by any reputable type-founder. 1 Moxon's tracings of the Van Dijck Roman letter, although rudely done, showing undue sharpening of the lower serifs, give a clearer idea of its peculiarities of style and of its M.T.C. T. TITIOTITI F. LEGATO S.D. Tfi non dubito quin apud tc mea commendatio pri- ma fads valeat, tamen obfequor homini familiariili- mo, C. Aviano Flacco : cujus caufla omnia cum cupio turn mehercule etiam debeo. De quo & praefens tecum egi dfligenter, cum tu mihi humaniflime refpondifti , & fcripfi M Tvllii ad te accurate antea : fed putat interefle fua, me ad te quam ciceronis faepiffime fcribere. Quare velim mihi ignofcas, fi illius vo- SSS^I luntati obtemperans, minus videbor meminhTe conftantiae Amsterdam, tuae. A te idem illud peto, ut de loco , quo deportee fru- mentum, & de tempore , Aviano commodes : quorum u- trumque per eundem me obtinuit triennium,dum Pompeius ifti negotio praefuit. Summa eft, in quo mihi gratiflimum facere poCfis, fi curaris ut Avianus, quum fe a me amari pu- tat, me a te amari fciat. Erit id mihi pergratum. Vale. Fac-simile of types used by Daniel Elzevir. real merit than can be had from the study of the Elzevir specimen sheet. The general effect of this letter is shown to the best advantage in the larger types of some of the 1 The widow of Daniel Elzevir has sion that she could not direct all the said that these types were by Van work that had been done by her hus- Dijck, but it is possible that she may band. In other words, she was not have been deceived. She begins her an expert in typography, and did but letter (see page 47) with the admis- repeat what she had been told.