A History of the Old English Letter Foundries: With Notes, Historical and Bibliographical, on the Rise and Progress of English Typography |
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... considerable fresh light on the history of our national typography . The first century of English letter - founding is a period of great obscurity , to master which it is absolutely essential to have unlimited access to all the works of ...
... considerable fresh light on the history of our national typography . The first century of English letter - founding is a period of great obscurity , to master which it is absolutely essential to have unlimited access to all the works of ...
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... considerable amount of conjecture and controversy in connection with the early methods of typography . The expression “ getté en molle " occurred as early as the year 1446 , in a record kept by Jean le Robert of Cambray , who stated ...
... considerable amount of conjecture and controversy in connection with the early methods of typography . The expression “ getté en molle " occurred as early as the year 1446 , in a record kept by Jean le Robert of Cambray , who stated ...
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... considerably lower than an ordinary space height . No. 2 approaches some of the continental heights still to be met with , while Nos . 1 , 5 , and 6 are higher than any known standard . It is easy to imagine that an early printer who ...
... considerably lower than an ordinary space height . No. 2 approaches some of the continental heights still to be met with , while Nos . 1 , 5 , and 6 are higher than any known standard . It is easy to imagine that an early printer who ...
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... considerable number of the incunabula , respecting which it is evident only one page was printed at a time . On this point we cannot do better than quote the words of Mr. Blades . " The scribe , " he says , " necessarily wrote but one ...
... considerable number of the incunabula , respecting which it is evident only one page was printed at a time . On this point we cannot do better than quote the words of Mr. Blades . " The scribe , " he says , " necessarily wrote but one ...
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... considerable and frequent change during the time that the ligatures were falling into disuse , and until the printer's alphabet had reduced itself to its present limits . Of the face of type used by the earliest printers we shall have ...
... considerable and frequent change during the time that the ligatures were falling into disuse , and until the printer's alphabet had reduced itself to its present limits . Of the face of type used by the earliest printers we shall have ...
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2-line English alphabet Andrews appears Arabic artist Baskerville Baskerville's beautiful Bible Birmingham Black body Bowyer Brevier broadside Canon cast types Caxton century character Chiswell Street Colard Mansion copy Cottrell curious Dominica Double Pica Dutch early edition Edmund Fry England English typography engraved Enschedé face facsimile famous folio fount Glasgow Grammar Greek Greek types Hansard Hebrew interesting Irish issued Jackson James John John Baskerville Joseph Moxon labour Latin Letter Founder letter-founding list of matrices London Long Primer master mentions metal mould Moxon Nichols Nonpareil original matrices Oxford Paris Pica Roman Polyglot printers Printing Types probably produced published punch-cutting punches and matrices purchased Roman and Italic Roman letter Rowe Samaritan Saxon says sheet Small Pica Specimen Book Specimen of Printing Star Chamber subsequently Syriac Testament Thomas trade two-line typefounding Types cast typography University Vincent Figgins vols William Caslon Wilson
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