From this wilderness the eighteenth century, under the guidance of France and England, timidly felt its way back to a kind of trim neatness, but the positive experiments of Baskerville and the Didots, and in Italy of bodoni, were not very exciting, and at present are quite out of fashion.
"Fine Books"
Alfred W. Pollard
The examples of Baskerville at home and of bodoni and other printers abroad had not been without effect on English printing.
"Fine Books"
Alfred W. Pollard
The pica then produced was an improvement in the style of bodoni, and quickly raised the foundry to its old position.
"A Short History of English Printing, 1476-1898"
Henry R. Plomer