��About the Type
The text of this book was set in Janson, a typeface designed in about 1690 by
Nicholas Kis, a Hungarian living in Amsterdam, and for many years mistakenly
attributed to the Dutch printer Anton Janson. In 1991 the matrices became the
property of the Stempel Foundry in Frankfurt. It is an old-style book face of excel-
lent clarity and sharpness. Janson serifs are concave and splayed; the contrast
between thick and thin strokes is marked.