“We have inserted specimens of several matrices which the great improvements made in the art of letter-cutting have rendered altogether useless in typography; but these specimens will be found of critical use to an antiquary, for whose sake we have inserted them, regardless of the charge that we deform our Specimen, or of another more material accusation, that by multiplying particulars we endeavour to enhance the value of our foundery. The latter we can easily refute; for the sets we speak of, besides the rudeness of the workmanship, are imperfect, and consequently unsaleable, and will probably be taken {225} from the foundery before it is disposed of to prevent the trouble of a future garbling,[425] and this consideration must extend to those objections which may be made against things cast in haste without justification, for the purpose only of shewing the faces. “Hitherto we have spoken only of Matrices. The punches, though in order they are first, must come last; and of them we have but little to say; for these having performed their office by formation of the matrice are generally like other useful instruments which have discharged their duty, neglected, discarded and thrown away. “The entire _loss_, the _waste_ and the _rubbish_ in our foundery in this article are great. The _waste_ and _rubbish_ are in weight about 120 lbs., and were we to put down _tale_ instead of _weight_ (the pusils which seem to make the greater part of this quantity not much exceeding in largeness the little end of a poinctrel) the number would be very great. But covetous of preserving the remembrance of everything which in Mr. James’ Foundery was curious or uncommon, we have re-scrutinized these, and have left behind us nothing but the Roman and Italic in which is nothing either curious or uncommon. “The same likewise have we done to the matrices, the waste of which now remaining and disposed of in order is in number about 2,600,[426] the rubbish in weight about 1/2 cwt. “A work of some trouble but _virtù_ hath been gratified amongst the rubbish of punches by some originals of Wynkyn de Worde, some punches of the 2-line Great Primer English.[427] They are truly _vetustate formâque et squalore venerabiles_, and we would not give a lower-case letter in exchange for all the leaden cups of Haerlem.”[428] [Illustration: 56. From the original in the Library of the London Institution.] Mr. Mores, unfortunately, did not live to see the publication of his {227} _Dissertation_, or to complete the Specimen which was to accompany it. He died in 1778, and four years elapsed before the foundry was put up to auction, and the catalogue with its specimen attached finally appeared.