The year of his entry into the business (1782) was signalised by an important event in the typefounding world—the sale of James’s foundry. This event has been fully alluded to elsewhere,[622] but it is interesting to note that the Frys were considerable purchasers on the occasion, securing amongst other items the chief part of the “learned” and foreign matrices, for which that collection was noted. The following list of their purchases forms an interesting connecting link between the old and the new letter-foundries; particularly as either punches or matrices of all the founts (and in some cases both) still exist, many of the latter being to this day in occasional use:― {303} _Blacks._[623]― English [A.] Pica [A.] Small Pica [A.] Long Primer [A.] Brevier [G.] Nonpareil [G.] _Hebrew._― English [A?] Small Pica Long Primer (or Bourgeois) Brevier _Rabbinical Hebrew._― Small Pica [A.] Brevier [A.] Nonpareil [A.] _Greek._― Alexandrian [G.] Great Primer [G.] Another [R?] Pica [R?] _Arabic._― Great Primer [A?] _Irish._― Small Pica [M.] [A.] _Ethiopic._― English [P.] [A.] Pica _Samaritan._― English [P.] [G.] Long Primer _Scriptorial._― Pica [G.] English [G.] _Union Pearl._― Double Pica [G.] _Court Hand._― English [G.] _Flowers._—Nearly all