A History of the Old English Letter Foundries: with Notes, Historical and Bibliographical, on the Rise and Progress of English Typography.Reed, Talbot Baines
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A History of the Old English Letter Foundries: with Notes, Historical and Bibliographical, on the Rise and Progress of English Typography.
Reed, Talbot Baines
Printing -- England -- History; Type and type-founding -- England -- History
_Roman and Italic._―
2-line English full face caps, 31.
2-line English Roman, 147.
2-line English Italic, 108.
Double Pica large face Roman, 122.
Double Pica small face Roman, 115.
Double Pica Italic, 107.
Double Pica 2, Roman, 118.
Double Pica 2, Italic, 66.
Another, 126.
Great Primer 1, Roman, 114.
Great Primer 1, Italic, 102.
Great Primer 2, Roman, 110.
Great Primer 2, Italic, 66.
English Roman and Italic, ...
English 2, Roman, 92.
English 3, Roman, 96.
English Roman lower-case, 32.
Pica Roman, 117.
Pica Roman, lower-case, 27.
Pica Roman, and Italic, long face, ...
Long Primer Roman, 84.
Long Primer Italic, 80.
Long Primer Roman lower-case, 42.
Long Primer Roman lower-case, another, 38.
Long Primer Italic capitals and double-letters, 45.
Brevier Roman lower-case, 57.
Brevier Roman lower-case, another, 57.
Brevier Italic, ...
_Title Letters and Irregulars._―
4-line Pica full face caps, 30.
Canon Roman, 27. [M.]
Canon Italic, 74. [M.]
2-line Double Pica Roman, 127.
2-line Great Primer full face caps, 31. {196}
_Title Letters and Irregulars._―
2-line Pica full face caps, 31.
2-line Pica Roman lean face, 58.
Paragon Roman, 122.
Paragon Italic, 100.
Small Pica Roman, 76.
Small Pica Italic, 82.
Small Pica Italic, another, 98.
Small Pica Italic, another, 80.
Small Pica Roman and Italic, ...
Bourgeois Italic, 72.
Nonpareil Roman, 80.
Pearl Roman, 2 sets.
SEPTENTRIONALS.
_Anglo-Saxon._―
Pica, 16.
Pica, another, 21.
_Anglo-Norman._―
Great Primer capitals, 24.
_English._―
Great Primer with law, 116.
English* with law, 106.
Pica with law, 125.
Pica small face, 71.
Long Primer,* 78.
Brevier with law, 118.
Small Pica* with law, 120.
Small Pica,* 58.
Nonpareil,* 43.
_Secretary._―
Great Primer capitals, 15.
_Hibernian._―
Pica,* 60. [M.]
Bishop Wilkins’ Real Character, English, 160. [M.]
Mr. Adam’s symbols, 20. [M.]
Mr. Moxon’s correcting marks, English, 16. [M.]
Mathematical Characters, English and Small Pica, 42. [M.]
Astronomical and Astrological, 31. [M.]
_Music._―
2-line Great Primer, 54.
Paragon, square-headed, 44.
Large old square-headed, 61.
Sundry old square-headed, 155.
[Illustration: _Elstob Saxon._
48. Saxon cut by R. Andrews for Miss Elstob’s _Grammar_, 1715. (From
the original matrices.)]
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