The Didot Family Extracted From the Forthcoming Bibliography of Printing
The Didot Family Extracted From the Forthcoming Bibliography of Printing
E C Edward Clements Bigmore
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He became famous as a punch-cutter, and for his mechanical skill. At the age of 66 he engraved a fount to which he gave the name of " microscopic, " and used it for the editions which he called "the microscopic editions " of the Maxims of Rochefoucault, and of Horace. This fount was a high achievement of the type- founder's art. The minuteness was such that the types could not be cast in the ordinary way ; hence he invented a special apparatus, to which he gave the name of the " polyamatype" an...d by means of which they were cast, a hundred letters at a time. These beautiful editions were printed by his brother, Didot jun. ST. LEGER, second son of Pierre Frangois, was the director of his father's paper-mills at Essonne. It is to this member of the family that we owe the very useful machine for making paper in the web, or in endless rolls. The first attempts in this direction were made at Essonne, in the mill of Pierre Frangois Didot, his father, where Robert, one of his foremen, conceived the first idea of such an apparatus.
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