A NOTE ON THE TYPE 

 IN WHICH THIS BOOK IS SET 



This book is set on the Monotype in Garamont, a modem 

 rendering of the type first cut in the sixteeyith century by 

 Claude GarafnondC^i; io-is6i). He was a pupil of Geofroy 

 Tory and is believed to have based his letters on Venetian 

 models, although he introduced a number of important dif- 

 ferences. It is to him xve owe the letter ivhich we know as 

 Old Style. He gave to his letters a certain elegance and a 

 feeling of movement which won for their creator an imme- 

 diate reputation and the patronage of the 

 French King, Francis I. 



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