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 48 HISTORIC PRINTING TYPES. types. other Dutch matrices to the cellar, and by cutting entirely new punches in imitation of the prevailing styles of the leading French founders. The new faces had the merit of novelty and pleased the type-buyers of England and Holland for man y F^ 1 * 8 ' About 1810 > one of the descendants of the Enschede family, annoyed by the sight of punches and matrices which seemed of no use, ordered all of them to be broken up and destroyed. Sixty years after, Willems vigorously rebuked the bad taste which prompted this wanton act of vandalism. Founders in Holland and Bel- gium discovered when too late that there was a good deal of merit in the destroyed types, and men of letters everywhere called for the reproduction of the entire series. ^ n the brief time allowed me I can say but little of other Dutch founders. Dirck Voskens was a celebrated founder at Amsterdam. Athias of the same city maintained a high reputation for his " Jewish f oundry " as it was then called. Isaac Van der Putte of Amsterdam deserves as honor- able mention. There were other foundries in the xviith century at the Hague, at Leyden, at Antwerp, and at Haarlem. Rudolph Wetstein, a printer of Amsterdam, inherited from three generations of founders at Basle and Geneva the materials of a great foundry which he reestablished at Haarlem, and which in time passed into the hands of the Enschede family. The Enschede foundry is still in exist- ence, and eminent for its good cuts of Orientals.