The foundry had, in the year 1801, been removed from Swan Yard, Holborn, to West Street, West Smithfield, where, besides the work of completing the founts most commonly in use, several important and interesting tasks of a special character had engaged Mr. Figgins’ attention. Among these may be mentioned the Small Pica Hebrew for _Bagster’s Polyglot_,[710] in 1817, which had the distinction in its day of being the smallest Hebrew with points in England. Dibdin, in his _Bibliographical Decameron_ (ii, 408), while specially commending the _Polyglot_, quotes a letter from Mr. Bagster in reference to the Figgins Hebrew fount, which it will be interesting to repeat here. Writing to Dibdin, Mr. Bagster remarks: “The difficulty to the compositor of the Hebrew with points far exceeds every other language. You are doubtless aware that every line is composed of three distinct lines; i.e., points and accents both above and below the line of letters. I wrote to the printer and letter founder to display these, and one of the letters (_that of Mr. Figgins which follows_) is enclosed as their accounts nearly agree. The difference between the fount with points, and that which is without them is very striking. The former requires 25 points and accents and 136 mixed letters; whereas the latter has only 32 altogether and one stop—a difference between the founts of 132 characters—the first with points exceeding by so considerable a number, and some are so minute that one ounce is found to contain no less than 236. “When I embraced the design of this work, no suitable fount of Hebrew existed. It became therefore necessary to cut the steel punches and the brass (_sic_) matrices before the fount of letter could be cast; and thus our country is enriched by the _creation_ of this new fount. “The Greek and Roman type I think will also be admired for the delicate neatness of their execution. The Hebrew and Greek types are of the neatest form, and the latter is that of Porson.” . . . Mr. Figgins’ letter enclosed is as follows:― “The number of Hebrew matrices are 82; these are all first cast on a minion body, and 54 of them are again cast on a diamond body, to admit of marks and accents being put over them. The accents and points are 25 in number, of which there are, of the thinnest sort, about 240 to the ounce. The number of boxes required to contain the fount are:― {342} “Minion Hebrew 82 Spaces (4), em and en quads (2), large quad (1) 7 Diamond Hebrew 54 Spaces same as Minion 7 Minikin accents and marks 25 Spaces, etc., same as Minion 7 ─── 182