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
43.—Specimen of Nicholas Nicholls, 1665. From the
original _face_ 178
44.—Portrait of Joseph Moxon. From the _Tutor to
Astronomy and Geography_, 4th ed., 1686, _face_ 180
45.—Moxon’s Irish type, 1680. From the original matrices 189
46.—Dutch Initial Letters. From the original matrices 80
47.—Nonpareil Rabbinical Hebrew in Andrews’ Foundry. From
the original matrices 194
48.—Saxon, cut by R. Andrews for Miss Elstob’s _Grammar_,
1715. From the original matrices 196
49.—Old Dutch Blacks in R. Andrews’ Foundry. From the
original matrices 194
50.—Alexandrian Greek in Grover’s Foundry. From the
Catalogue of James’ Sale, 1782 200
51.—Scriptorial in Grover’s Foundry. From the original
matrices 204
52.—Court Hand in Grover’s Foundry. From the original
matrices 204
53.—Union Pearl in Grover’s Foundry. From the original
matrices 204
54.—Walpergen’s Music type. Oxford, _circ._ 1675. From
the original matrices 208
55.—Pictorial pierced Initial. From an 18th century
newspaper 81
56.—Title-page of the Catalogue and Specimen of
James’ Foundry, 1782. From the original 226
57.—Portrait of William Caslon. From Hansard _face_ 232
58.—View of the Interior of Caslon’s Foundry in 1750.
From the _Universal Magazine_ _Frontispiece_
59.—Pica Roman and Italic, cut by Caslon, 1720. From the
original matrices 236
60.—Black letter, cut by Caslon. From the original
matrices 239
61.—Arabic, cut by Caslon, 1720. From the original
matrices 235
62.—Coptic, cut by Caslon, _ante_ 1731. From the original
matrices 236
63.—Armenian, cut by Caslon, _ante_ 1736. From the
original matrices 239
64.—Etruscan, cut by Caslon, 1738. From the original
matrices 240
65.—Gothic, cut by Caslon, _ante_ 1734. From the original
matrices 239
66.—Ethiopic, cut by Caslon. From the original matrices 240
67.—Syriac, cut by Caslon II, _circ._ 1768. From the
original matrices 246
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