A History of the Old English Letter Foundries: with Notes, Historical and Bibliographical, on the Rise and Progress of English Typography.Reed, Talbot Baines
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A History of the Old English Letter Foundries: with Notes, Historical and Bibliographical, on the Rise and Progress of English Typography.
Reed, Talbot Baines
Printing -- England -- History; Type and type-founding -- England -- History
He was an old Member of the Stationers’ Company. In private life he was
a man of genial disposition. A portrait of him, painted by Frederique
Boileau, was exhibited in the Caxton Exhibition of 1877 by his son, the
late Arthur Fry, and an excellent silhouette is also in possession of
the family of the late Mr. Francis Fry, F.S.A., of Bristol, to whom we
are indebted for our copy.
LIST OF SPECIMENS, 1768–1827.
1768. A specimen by Isaac Moore, Bristol, 1768. Broadside. . . . .
(Renouard, _Cat._ ii, 310.)
1768. A specimen of Printing Types by Isaac Moore & Co., Letter
Founders, in Queen Street, near Upper Moorfields, London, 1768.
Broadside. . . . . (Sohmian Coll., Stockholm.)
1770. A specimen of Printing Types by Isaac Moore & Co., Letter
Founders, of Queen Street, near Upper Moorfields, London, 1770.
Broadside. . . . . (Caxt. Cel., 4371.)
1785. A specimen of Printing Types made by Joseph Fry and Sons,
Letter Founders and Marking Instrument Makers by the King’s Royal
Letters Patent. London, Printed in the year 1785. 8vo. . . . . (B.
M., 679, e. 16.)
1785. A specimen of Printing Types by Joseph Fry & Sons, Letter
Founders, Worship Street, Moorfields, London, 1785. Broadside.
. . . . (T. B. R.)
1786. A specimen of Printing Types by Joseph Fry & Sons, Letter
Founders to the Prince of Wales. London, Printed in the year 1786.
8vo. . . . . (W. B.)
1787. A specimen of Printing Types by Edmund Fry & Co., 1787. 8vo.
. . . . (_Printer’s Grammar_, pp. 273–316.)
1788. A specimen of Printing Types by Edmund Fry & Co., Letter
Founders to the Prince of Wales. London, Printed in the year 1788.
8vo. . . . . (T. B. R.)
1790. A specimen of Printing Types by Edmund Fry & Co., Letter
Founders to the Prince of Wales. London, Printed in the year 1790.
8vo. . . . . (Sohmian Coll., Stockholm.) {314}
1793. Specimen of Metal Cast Ornaments, curiously adjusted to
Paper by Edmund Fry & Co., Letter Founders to the Prince of Wales,
Type Street, London. Printed by T. Rickaby, 1793. 8vo. . . . .
(Amer. Antiq. Soc.)
1794. A specimen of Printing Types by Fry & Steele, Letter
Founders to the Prince of Wales, Type Street, London. Printed by
T. Rickaby, 1794. 8vo. . . . . (B. M., 11899, i. 18.)
1794. Specimen of Metal Cast Ornaments, curiously adjusted to
paper by Edmund Fry and Isaac Steele, Letter Founders to the
Prince of Wales, Type Street, London. Printed by T. Rickaby, 1794.
8vo. . . . . (W. B.)
1795. A specimen of Printing Types by Fry & Steele, Letter
Founders to the Prince of Wales, Type Street, London. Printed by
T. Rickaby, 1795. 8vo. . . . . (T. B. R.)
1800. A specimen of Printing Types by Fry, Steele and Co., Letter
Founders to the Prince of Wales, Type Street, London. Printed in
the year 1800. 8vo. . . . . (T. B. R.)
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