| Dominiqué Carre: |
| Typography in Wood Wood Typography from the 19th Century |
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| The catalog entitled Spécimen de caractères en bois de la maison Bonnet probably dates from the 1860s — a period when Romantic phantasmagoria was on the decline in the structure of the letter but still prevalent in its outlines; type design was beginning to borrow from the architectural eclecticism of the age, and sometimes resembled wrought ironwork. |
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