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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... language purporting to treat of Letter Founding as distinct from the art which it fosters . This quaint and crabbed sketch , full of valuable but half - digested information , was intended to accompany a specimen of the types of John ...
... language purporting to treat of Letter Founding as distinct from the art which it fosters . This quaint and crabbed sketch , full of valuable but half - digested information , was intended to accompany a specimen of the types of John ...
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... language was employed where conventional would have answered equally well , and that the natural antithesis to the general term , " by hand , " must in all cases be assumed to be the particular term , " printed in cast metal types ...
... language was employed where conventional would have answered equally well , and that the natural antithesis to the general term , " by hand , " must in all cases be assumed to be the particular term , " printed in cast metal types ...
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... language in which these artists were wont to describe their own labours is apt occasionally to lead to confusion , as to whether the expressions used refer to the punch , the matrix , or the cast types . We meet almost promiscuously ...
... language in which these artists were wont to describe their own labours is apt occasionally to lead to confusion , as to whether the expressions used refer to the punch , the matrix , or the cast types . We meet almost promiscuously ...
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... languages which have figured conspicuously in English typography . TYPE - BODIES . The origin of type - bodies and the nomenclature which has grown around them , is a branch of typographical antiquity which has always been shrouded in ...
... languages which have figured conspicuously in English typography . TYPE - BODIES . The origin of type - bodies and the nomenclature which has grown around them , is a branch of typographical antiquity which has always been shrouded in ...
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... language , " says Dibdin , " presents to the eye a great uniformity or evenness of effect . The m and n , like the solid sirloin upon our table , have a substantial appearance ; no garnishing with useless 1 Specimen Bibliorum Editionis ...
... language , " says Dibdin , " presents to the eye a great uniformity or evenness of effect . The m and n , like the solid sirloin upon our table , have a substantial appearance ; no garnishing with useless 1 Specimen Bibliorum Editionis ...
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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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Page 281 - Amongst the several mechanic Arts that have engaged my attention, there is no one which I have pursued with so much steadiness and pleasure, as that of Letter-Founding. Having been an early admirer of the beauty of Letters, I became insensibly desirous of contributing to the perfection of them.
Page 170 - A specimen of the Several sorts of Letter given to the University by Dr. John Fell, late Lord Bishop of Oxford. To which is added, the Letter given by Mr. F. Junius. Oxford, printed at the Theater, AD 1693.
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Page 326 - In a country so remote from all connection with European artists, he has been obliged to charge himself with all the various occupations of the Metallurgist, the Engraver, the Founder, and the Printer.
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