In reply to Foundry type in 1705 England?:
And as for your point about not being English, Marini's site indicates that the fonts Fell bought were mostly Dutch, with some French italics in the larger sizes...
Even more than that. In Jaspert et al., Encyclopedia of type faces, you'll find in the notes to the Fell Roman "But some of these types, like the one shown here, are probably of French origin." That's the text-size "Fell Roman."
Robert Granjon worked in Antwerp a while. And of course, though working in Neiderland, Kis was Hungarian & probably familiar with the work of the Venetians. Those old punchcutters moved around.
What's always a danger with one of these project is that the half-informed will charge you made a bad decision
