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
13.—Blooming Initials. Oxford, _circ._ 1700 80
14.—Pierced Initial. Oxford, _ante_ 1700 81
15.—Caxton’s Advertisement, in his Type 3 _face_ 88
16.—Caxton’s Type 4.* From the _Golden Legend_ _face_ 88
17.—Black letter, supposed to be De Worde’s. From
Palmer’s _History of Printing_ 90
18.—Pynson’s Roman letter. From the _Oratio in Pace
Nuperrimâ_, 1518 92
18_a_.—Berthelet’s Black letter and Secretary type. From
the _Boke named the Governour_, 1531 95
19.—Portrait of John Day, 1562. From Peter Martir’s
_Commentaries_, 1568 99
20, 21, 22.—Day’s Saxon, Roman, and Italic. From the
_Ælfredi Res Gestæ_, 1574 _face_ 96
23.—Letter Founding in Frankfort in 1568. From Jost
Amman’s _Stände und Handwerker_ 104
24.—Letter Founding and Printing _circ._ 1548. From the
Harleian MSS. 105
25.—Letter Founding in 1683. From Moxon’s _Mechanick
Exercises_ 109
26.—Letter Founding in France in 1718. From Thiboust’s
_Typographiæ Excellentia_ 115
27.—Colophon of the _Lyndewode_, Oxford, _n.d._ Showing
types [c], [d], [e], [f] _face_ 138
28.—Greek fount of the Eton _Chrysostom_, 1613 _face_ 140
29.—Greeks, Roman and Italic. From the _Catena on Job_,
1637 _face_ 140
30.—The Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford. From an old wood-block 153
31.—The Clarendon Press, Oxford. From an old wood-block 156
32.—Pica Roman and Italic, presented to Oxford by Dr.
Fell, 1667 152
33.—Pica Roman and Italic, bought by Oxford University in
1692 152
34, 35, 36, 37, 38.—Hebrew, large and small, Coptic,
Arabic, and Syriac, presented to Oxford by Dr. Fell, 1667.
From the original matrices 147
39.—Ethiopic, bought by Oxford University in 1692. From
the original matrices 154
40.—Ethiopic of Walton’s _Polyglot_, 1657. From the
original matrices 174
41.—Syriac of Walton’s _Polyglot_, 1657. From the
original matrices 174
42.—Samaritan of Walton’s _Polyglot_, 1657. From the
original matrices 174
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