Typefoundries in the Netherlands from the Fifteenth to the Nineteenth century 138

THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

book from his foundry at the Hague1 and thinking that the best way of pushing
his wares was to write in the preface that some of his types were made with punches
cut by Fleischman, although the assertion was quite untrue. As a natural conse¬
quence, when the Brothers Ploos van Amstel next produced a specimen-book, in
1784,2 they made it plain in the foreword, set in the script type that Fleischman had
cut in his last days, that only their foundry and that of Enschedé had any types by
the great artist.3

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Fig. 271. Two-line Small Pica Script no. 96, cut by Fleischman in 1768. Resetting of
part of the preface to the type-specimen of the Brothers Ploos van Amstel, 1784.

[1] See List of type-specimens no. 129.

[2] See List of type-specimens no. 132. This specimen-book
is undated, but it appears from the foreword to their speci¬
men-book issued from the Leidsegracht (see List of type-
specimens No. 139) that their previous one was issued in 1784.
No doubt that this one is meant, because they refer to it as
to their large edition.

[3] In 1732—52 Fleischman sold matrices for six of his
Romans and four of his Italics to Ulrich Pfeiffer, typefounder
at Nuremberg (Fleischman's account-book in the Museum
Enschedé, CTV 298f, cited in Gedenkchrift, p. 12). Bauer pp. 159-
160 refers to this material; but the information he gives is
not exaft. However, he supposes that the typefoundry which
at one time belonged to Pfeiffer came later into the hands

244

JACQUES-FRANÇOIS ROSART

When Izaak and Johannes Enschedé took possession of the Wetstein Foundry in
T743, their first care was to enlarge the stock. Where types for small bodies were
concerned, they gave the orders to their own punchcutter, Fleischman, but for
large types they went to Rosart.1

Jacques-François Rosart was baptized at Namur on 9 August 1714. He learned
without any instruction to cut punches, and came to Haarlem [where he arrived on
5 May 1740 from Egmond Binnen]. He set up as a typefounder [on the Spaarne

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Fig. 272. Two-line Small Pica Script No. 96, cut by Fleischman in 1768. Resetting of
part of the preface to the type-specimen of the Brothers Ploos van Amstel, 1784.

of F. Meyer, and then of J. Ch. Zanker (ibid. pp. 158-159). bodied. In 1923 the face was used for an Insel Verlag edition

According to E. V/etzig in the Archiv [iir Buchgewerbe und Gebrauchs- of Rilke's Neue Gedichte.

grapliil 61, 1924, pp. 441-442 it became recently known that [1] The biographical data in the following paragraphs

the J. Ch. Zanker Typefoundry at Nuremberg possesses the about J.-F. Rosart are brought in accordance with those given

original matrices of the 'Fleischman-Antiqua' and that cast in Baurlin and Ное|1а1ге, passim, where more detailed information

type is available ranging from Nonpareil to Two-line English- about him and his work can be found.