This founder, who was born in 1650, succeeded Joseph Moxon, probably about the year 1683,[368] and transferred his foundry to Charterhouse Street, where he continued in business till 1733. His foundry, of which, Mores informs us, Moxon’s matrices formed the most considerable part, was, next to that of the Grovers, the most extensive of its day; and it would appear that, for some time at any rate, these two shared between them the whole of the English trade. Andrews’ foundry consisted of a large variety of Roman letter and Titlings; and in “learned” founts was specially rich in Hebrew, of which there were no less than eleven founts, and five Rabbinical. Of peculiar sorts, he possessed the matrices of Bishop Wilkins’ “Real Character,” also the correcting-marks used by Moxon in his _Mechanick Exercises_, and other symbols, besides three or four founts of square-headed music. [Illustration: 47. Nonpareil Rabbinical Hebrew, from R. Andrews’ Foundry. (From the original matrices.)] [Illustration: 49. Old Blacks from R. Andrews’ Foundry, 1706. (From the original matrices.)] He also possessed the Hebrews and the Ethiopic[369] used in Walton’s _Polyglot_; the Irish cut by Moxon for Boyle’s _New Testament_, and a curious alphabet of Great Primer Anglo-Norman; besides a fine specimen of old Blacks (two of which are here shown), probably handed down from some of the early English {195} printers, whose character they strongly resemble. His son, Silvester Andrews, as we shall notice later on, founded at Oxford, whither he appears to have taken matrices of some of the Romans and one fount of Hebrew from his father’s foundry. The following is the list of matrices in the foundry in 1706, as given by Mores. Founts of which the punches or matrices are still in existence are distinguished by an asterisk; those descended from the _Polyglot_ foundry are marked [P.], and those from Moxon’s [M.]:― “Mr. ROBERT ANDREWS’ FOUNDERY, 1706. ORIENTALS. _Hebrew._― 2-line English, 32. [P.?] Double Pica, 68. [P.?] Great Primer, 35. English (the common German face), 47. English, 73. [P.?] Pica, 65. Long Primer, 35. Brevier, 35. Small Pica, old, 42. Small Pica, another, 77. Small Pica, another, 73. Nonpareil, 35. _Rabbinical Hebrew._― English (German), 30. Rashi, Pica, 29. Rashi, Long Primer,* 30. Rashi, Brevier,* 29. Rashi, Nonpareil,* 29. Large face points, 42. Accents, 27. Small face points, 28. _Samaritan._― (Leusdenian), 21. _Syriac._― Great Primer, 47; Points, 13. _Arabic._― Great Primer, 104. English, 62. MERIDIONALS. _Æthiopic._― Great Primer,* 212. [P.] OCCIDENTALS. _Greek._― English.§ Long Primer.§ Brevier.§ Long Primer, 457. Brevier, 331. Nonpareil, 329. § “These three were purchased by Thos. James, 20th April 1724, ten years before the sale of the foundery.”