He does not appear to have extended his foundry very much as regards its Roman letter. According to Rowe Mores, however, he produced “some uncommon founts of proscription, or posting letter of great bulk and dimensions as high as to the measure of twelve-line Pica.”[596] Of these founts (which were no doubt cast, like Caslon’s, in sand), a specimen is in existence, consisting of two broadside sheets, showing about eleven sizes from two-line Double Pica to twelve-line Pica. No specimen, however, is to be found of the Russian fount, which Mores, writing in 1778, hopes Cottrell is about to cut “for a gentleman who compiles a Russian Dictionary; the same gentleman who translated into English, _The Grand Instructions of Her Imperial Majesty Catherine II, for a new Code of Laws for the Russian Empire. London, 1768, 4to._, to whom we wish success.” Cottrell died in 1785. He is described as obliging, good-natured, and friendly, rejecting nothing because it is out of the common way, and expeditious in his performances. Nichols, in recording his death, says “Mr. Cottrell died, I am sorry to add, not in affluent circumstances, though to his profession of a letter-founder were superadded that of a doctor for the toothache, which he cured by {292} burning the ear; and had also the honour of serving in the Troop of His Majesty’s Life Guards.”[597] The following is the summary of his foundry as gathered from his specimen book, together with the additional founts cut subsequently:― MR. COTTRELL’S FOUNDRY. _Roman._― 5-line, 4-line, 2-line Double Pica, 2-line Great Primer, 2-line English, 2-line Small Pica, 2-line Long Primer. _Roman and Italic._― Canon, 2-line Great Primer, 2-line English, Double Pica, Great Primer, English, Pica 1, Pica 2, Small Pica, Long Primer 1, Long Primer 2, Bourgeois, Brevier. _Flowers._― Small Pica, 29 varieties. _Engrossing._― 2-line English. _Script._― Double Pica. _Domesday._― English. _Large letter._― From 4-line up to 12-line. Of the history of the Foundry during the nine years following Mr. Cottrell’s death, no record remains. In 1794 it became the property of Robert Thorne, a former apprentice of Cottrell’s, who removed the business from Nevil’s Court to No. 1, Barbican, whence he issued in that year his first specimen and a price list announcing his new undertaking.[598] The specimen book consists entirely of elegantly shaped large letters cast in sand, from five-line up to nineteen-line, a then unprecedented size. The bulk of these, comprising the sizes from five to twelve-line, advancing by one pica em in body, it may be surmised, are from Cottrell’s models; the thirteen, sixteen, and nineteen-line, being added by Thorne. For his specimen of ordinary-sized letter, Thorne probably made use at first of Cottrell’s book as it stood.[599]