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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... German who printed at Ephrata in the United States in 1749 , which we think is suggestive of the possible expedients of the first printers with regard to the mould . During the time that a certain work of Miller was in the press , says ...
... German who printed at Ephrata in the United States in 1749 , which we think is suggestive of the possible expedients of the first printers with regard to the mould . During the time that a certain work of Miller was in the press , says ...
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... German fount from one merchant , a Dutch from another , and so on . The type No. 3 , though lower than all the rest , has yet a letter upon its 3. Type Mould of Claude Garamond . Paris , 1540. The Types and Typefounding of the First ...
... German fount from one merchant , a Dutch from another , and so on . The type No. 3 , though lower than all the rest , has yet a letter upon its 3. Type Mould of Claude Garamond . Paris , 1540. The Types and Typefounding of the First ...
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... German fount from one merchant , a Dutch from another , and so on . The type No. 3 , though lower than all the rest , has yet a letter upon its 3. Type Mould of Claude Garamond . Paris , 1540. The Types and Typefounding of the First ...
... German fount from one merchant , a Dutch from another , and so on . The type No. 3 , though lower than all the rest , has yet a letter upon its 3. Type Mould of Claude Garamond . Paris , 1540. The Types and Typefounding of the First ...
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... German fount from one merchant , a Dutch from another , and so on . The type No. 3 , though lower than all the rest , has yet a letter upon its 3. Type Mould of Claude Garamond . Paris , 1540. The Types and Typefounding of the First ...
... German fount from one merchant , a Dutch from another , and so on . The type No. 3 , though lower than all the rest , has yet a letter upon its 3. Type Mould of Claude Garamond . Paris , 1540. The Types and Typefounding of the First ...
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... German books , proves that about the year 1476 types were made differing only in the two points of the want of a nick and the want of a jet - break from the types of to - day . The quantity of types required by the earliest printers ...
... German books , proves that about the year 1476 types were made differing only in the two points of the want of a nick and the want of a jet - break from the types of to - day . The quantity of types required by the earliest printers ...
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Page 72 - I do not love thee, Doctor Fell, The reason why I cannot tell ; But this alone I know full well, I do not love thee, Doctor Fell.* 1 Sec Proverbial Expressions.
Page 153 - 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 82 - 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.
Page 61 - Court doth award that you be led back to the place from whence you came, and from thence to be drawn upon...
Page 82 - She supported herself by keeping school, and was afterwards tutoress in the family of the Duchess-dowager of Portland, " where," says this writer, "we have visited her in her sleeping-room at Bulstrode, surrounded with books and dirtiness, the usual appendages of folk of learning.
Page 155 - Stranger, Beneath this cone, in unconsecrated ground, A friend to the liberties of mankind directed his body to be inurned. May the example contribute to emancipate thy mind From the idle fears of Superstition, And the wicked Arts of Priesthood ! 74.
Page 170 - 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.
Page 155 - Readers in the Nation ; for the Strokes of your Letters, being too thin and narrow, hurt the Eye, and he could never read a Line of them without Pain. "I thought," said I, "you were going to complain of the Gloss of the Paper, some object to.
Page 153 - It is not my desire to print many books ; but such only, as are books of Consequence, of intrinsic merit, or established Reputation, and which the public may be pleased to see in an elegant dress, and to purchase at such a price, as will repay the extraordinary care and expense that must necessarily be bestowed upon them...
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