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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... entire page , but because the labour and cost of that way was so great , they de- vised movable wooden types , perforated and joined one to the other by a thread . " The legend , once started , found no lack of sponsors , and the ...
... entire page , but because the labour and cost of that way was so great , they de- vised movable wooden types , perforated and joined one to the other by a thread . " The legend , once started , found no lack of sponsors , and the ...
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... entire foot , from which it could only be detached by a saw or cutter . The " shamfer " already pointed out in types 2 , 5 , 6 , if produced in the mould , may indicate an early attempt to reduce the size of the jet , which , if ...
... entire foot , from which it could only be detached by a saw or cutter . The " shamfer " already pointed out in types 2 , 5 , 6 , if produced in the mould , may indicate an early attempt to reduce the size of the jet , which , if ...
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... of Florence , 100 little initials , three large initials , three copper vignettes , and the copper for an entire set of Greek matrices . the colophon to Fustinian's Institutes , “ can now procure 28 The Old English Letter Foundries .
... of Florence , 100 little initials , three large initials , three copper vignettes , and the copper for an entire set of Greek matrices . the colophon to Fustinian's Institutes , “ can now procure 28 The Old English Letter Foundries .
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... entire type had been moulded . Such types may have been perforated and held together in lines by a wire . The suggestion that the earliest types were produced by a system of polytype , and that the face of each letter , sawn off a plate ...
... entire type had been moulded . Such types may have been perforated and held together in lines by a wire . The suggestion that the earliest types were produced by a system of polytype , and that the face of each letter , sawn off a plate ...
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... entire contents of the new foundry ; and by printing the same passage in each size of Roman , gave the printer an opportunity of judging how one body compared with another for capacity . Caslon was the first to adopt the since familiar ...
... entire contents of the new foundry ; and by printing the same passage in each size of Roman , gave the printer an opportunity of judging how one body compared with another for capacity . Caslon was the first to adopt the since familiar ...
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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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