MATRICES. Arabic, Syriac and Hebrew 228 Arabic figures 10 Anglo-Saxon 83 Armenian 77 Armenian 7 Armenian 7 Black, English 73 Coptic 135 Coptic 27 Ethiopic 224 Greek, Augustin (or English) 351 Greek, Great Primer 493 Greek, Great Primer (Baskerville’s) 167 Greek, Double Pica (bad) 239 Greek, Paragon (Double Pica) 432 Greek, Long Primer 352 Greek, 2-line English 11 Hebrew, large and small 230 Hebrew, large and small 250 Music 228 Music 70 Runic, Dutch, Saxon, Gothic and Greek 89 Samaritan 30 Saxon, Small Pica, Long Primer, Pica 20 Slavonic 110 Syriac, English 120 Syriac, vowels 5 Turkish, Persian, Malayan 47 Welch 10 Of the printing utensils, the following items will give an idea of the extent of the press at that date:― {162} CASES (FILLED WITH TYPE). Common cases 267 Single cases and boxes 44 Fount cases 26 Long Greek cases 34 Frames 30 Chases 129 Letter boards 37 Presses 5 Proof press 1 Of the presses, one is described as “mahogany, set up in the year 1793,” and another as “on the new constitution which works with a lever, set up in 1793.” We have now brought our account of letter-founding at Oxford to the close of the last century. Its later history is of comparatively slight interest. The foundry still remains a part of the Press, and the reputation of the University for its oriental and learned founts has been maintained by numerous additions to its punches and matrices. Of such matters, however, in the absence of periodical general specimens, it is impossible to give particulars. The list of matrices given by Hansard in 1825 is entirely misleading, as he merely summarises the list taken by Mores from the _Specimen_ of 1768–70. We may, however, observe that at the present moment, under able management, the foundry is in active operation, and that the University Press possesses probably the largest collection of “Polyglot” matrices of any foundry in the kingdom.