This is Essays 1743, a font by John Stracke, based on the typeface used in a 1743 English translation of Montaigne's Essays. The font is released under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (see the COPYING file). At present (version 1.0), it contains normal, bold,, italic and bold italic versions of 817 characters: all of ASCII, Latin-1, and Latin Extended A; some of Latin Extended B (basically, the ones that are more or less based on Roman letters); and a variety of other characters, such as oddball punctuation, numerals, etc.
(Side note: I recently found that Project Gutenberg has the texts of the translation in question; you can search for "Montaigne". However, note that the texts they have are apparently a different version: still the same translation, but edited and republished in 1877. Aside from that, if you really feel like it, you can download the books from Gutenberg, print them out with this font, and get an approximation of how the real thing looks. ;-)
TrueType and PostScript forms are available.
Here's a quick sample of what the normal version of the font looks like:
You can also see all the characters if you want. It's PDF, 6 pages, about 1.1M (as of version 0.4).
| Tarball | Zip file | Other | |
| TrueType | Essays1743-1.0-ttf.tar.gz | Essays1743-1.0-ttf.zip | RPM, SRPM |
| PostScript PFA | Essays1743-1.0-pfa.tar.gz | Essays1743-1.0-pfa.zip | |
| PostScript PFB | Essays1743-1.0-pfb.tar.gz | Essays1743-1.0-pfb.zip | |
| Source only (Source is also in the other tarballs and zipfiles above.) |
Essays1743-1.0-src.tar.gz | Essays1743-1.0-src.zip |
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