Joseph Moxon. =Footnotes.= [1] “A History of the Old English Letter Foundries, with Notes Historical and Biographical on the Rise and Progress of English Typography.” By Talbot Baines Reed, London, 1887, p. 181. [2] The four founders appointed by the Star Chamber did not thrive. One of them, Arthur Nicholls, said of himself: “Of so small benifitt hath his Art bine that for 4 yeares worke and practice he hath not taken above 48£, and had it not bine for other imploymente he might have perrisht.” Reed, p. 168. [3] “A Dissertation upon English Typographical Founders and Founderies.” By Edward Rowe Mores, A. M. & A. S. S. [London], 1778. 8vo, p. 43. [4] See plates Nos. 11 to 17. [5] Reed, “Old English Letter Foundries,” pp. 185, 186. [6] Mores, “English Founders,” p. 42. [7] Hansard says (“Typographia,” p. vii): “I have never been able to meet with more than two copies of this work—one in the Library of the British Museum—the other in the Library of the Society of Arts.” The writer knows of but three copies in America: one in the Library Company of Philadelphia; one in the Library of the Typothetæ of New-York; one in his own collection. _MECHANICK EXERCISES:_ Or, the Doctrine of =Handy-works.= Applied to the Art of =Printing.= _PREFACE._ B_Efore I begin with_ Typographie, _I shall say somewhat of its Original Invention; I mean here in_ Europe, _not of theirs in_ China _and other Eastern Countries, who (by general assent) have had it for many hundreds of years, though their Invention is very different from ours; they Cutting their Letters upon Blocks in whole Pages or Forms, as among us our Wooden Pictures are Cut; But_ Printing _with single Letters Cast in Mettal, as with us here in_ Europe, _is an Invention scarce above Two hundred and fifteen years old; and yet an undecidable Controversie about the original Contriver or Contrivers remains on foot, between the_ Harlemers _of_ Holland, _and those of_ Mentz _in_ Germany: _But because the difference cannot be determin’d for want of undeniable Authority, I shall only deliver both their Pleas to this_ Scientifick Invention.