Specimen des ecritures modernes
Subtitle: comprenant les romaines fleuronnées, gothiques nouvelles, fractures, françaises, anglaise, italienne et allemande
By: éxécutées à la plume par Jean Midolle
Publisher: Gravées sur pierre et publiées à la Lithographie de Fc. Emile Simon fils
Published: 1834
Place of publication: Strasbourg
Language: fre
Number of pages: 36
Subjects: Alphabets; Copybooks; Penmanship
Other titles: Ecritures modernes
Notes: Made up of selected leaves from Midolle's Ecritures anciennes and Specimen des écritures modernes (both Strasbourg, E. Simon, 1834-1835). Some leaves are in variant state or printed in different colors than in the original works.

Consists of a portrait of Midolle, title-page to the Specimen, and 34 samples of alphabets and scripts by Ehrhardt, Fasoli, Lemaître and Schmidt after designs by Midolle.

Chromolithographed; most leaves heightened by hand.