No date. A specimen of Printing Types by Thomas Cottrell, Letter Founder, in Nevil’s Court, Fetter Lane, London. (1766?) 8vo. . . . . (T.B.R.) 1770. A specimen of Cottrell’s Engrossing, Flowers, and Domesday Letters. 8vo. . . . . (Luckombe’s _History of Printing_, pp. 169–174.) No date. A specimen of Large Letters by Thomas Cottrell, in Nevil’s Court, Fetter Lane, London. (1785?) 2 sheets, Broadside. . . . . (Sohmian Coll. Stockholm.) 1794. Specimen of Printing Types by R. Thorne, Letter Founder, No. 11, Barbican, London. Printed by W. Glindon, 1794. Sm. 4to. . . . . (T.B.R.) 1798. Specimen of Printing Types by R. Thorne, Letter Founder, Barbican, London, Printed in the year 1798. Sm. 4to. . . . . (Ox. Univ. Pr.) 1803. Thorne’s Specimen of Printing Types, 1803. 8vo. . . . . (W.B.) 1821. Thorowgood’s New Specimen of Printing Types, late R. Thorne’s, No. 2, Fann Street, Aldersgate Street, London. 8vo. . . . . (T.B.R.) 1822. A specimen sheet of Greek Type, W. Thorowgood, June, 1822. 8vo. . . . . (T.B.R.) 1828. Thorowgood’s, late Thorne’s, Specimen of Printing Types, 1828. 8vo. . . . . (T.B.R.) 1830. Additions to the Specimen of the Fann Street Letter Foundry, W. Thorowgood, Letter Founder to His Majesty, London, 1830. 8vo. . . . . (Caxt. Cel. 4418.) 1830. Fann Street Letter Foundry, London. Thorowgood’s Specimens of Greeks, Hebrews, and Foreign Characters, late the property of Dr. Edmund Fry. 1830. 8vo. . . . . (Caxt. Cel. 4413.) [Illustration] {298} [Illustration] CHAPTER XV. JOSEPH AND EDMUND FRY, 1764. This foundry, first known as Fry and Pine’s, had its origin in Bristol in the year 1764. Mr. Joseph Fry, a prominent and enterprising Bristolian, was the son of Mr. John Fry, and was born in the year 1728. He entered the medical profession, where, says a biographer,[611] “his affable, courteous manners and sound Christian principles soon secured to him a large practice amongst the highest class of his fellow citizens. Possessing uncommon energy and activity of mind, he was led to take a part in many new scientific undertakings, actuated more by the desire to be useful to society and advance the arts than by any hope of individual profit.” This spirit of enterprise induced him, in the year 1764, to turn his attention to letter-founding, which, though hardly to be called a new scientific undertaking, was at least a novel industry for a provincial city. The success of Baskerville’s foundry at Birmingham, at that time in the height of its celebrity, was undoubtedly an incentive to the adventurers of Bristol, whose first founts were avowedly cut in close imitation of those famous models. [Illustration: 73A. Joseph Fry and Dr. Edmund Fry. From Silhouettes in the possession of Francis Fry, Esq., of Bristol.]