Although Luckombe, writing in 1770,[616] mentions Moore along with Caslon and Jackson, as one of the three London founders, the same authority makes a decidedly disparaging reference to his types[617]; a circumstance which may be accounted for by the then growing prejudice amongst metropolitan printers against the Baskerville form of letter adopted by the new foundry. Representations of a similar nature having been made from several influential quarters, it became evident to the proprietors that if they were to retain public favour at all, it must be by adapting themselves to public taste, and abandoning the formal, delicate models of Baskerville for the more serviceable, dashing characters of Caslon. This laborious task occupied several years in completion. Meanwhile the original founts were not discarded. The printing office connected with the foundry distinguished itself in the interval by the production of two highly interesting _Bibles_, the one a folio, published in 1774, and the other an 8vo, in five volumes, published 1774–6.[618] Both are elegantly printed in the clear Great Primer letter shown in the 1770 Specimen; the latter being in long lines specially for the use of the aged. The general appearance of the folio edition compares not unfavourably with the Baskerville _Bible_ of 1772. In 1774, Pine printed at Bristol a very neat _Bible_ in the Pearl type of the foundry, “being”, says the preface, “the smallest a Bible was ever printed with, and made on purpose for this work.”[619] {302} Moore’s connection with the business appears to have terminated in 1776, after which the style of the firm became J. Fry and Co., who in the following year issued, in their own name, reprints of the folio and octavo _Bibles_ above referred to.[620] No specimen-sheet of their types appeared till seven years later, by which time Mr. Pine had also withdrawn from the business.[621] He continued to print the _Bristol Gazette_ in Wine Street, Bristol, till the time of his death, which occurred in 1803, at the age of sixty-four years. Left to himself, Mr. Fry, in the year 1782, admitted his sons Edmund and Henry into partnership, under whose supervision the work of re-cutting the Romans of the foundry made active progress. Edmund Fry, probably the most learned letter-founder of his day, had, like his father, been educated for the medical profession, and had taken his doctor’s degree. But the infirmity of deafness prevented him from following that walk in life, and he abandoned it for typefounding, applying himself to that pursuit, not only with the enthusiasm of an ardent philologist, but also with considerable natural ability for conducting the practical operations of the art.