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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Author

Reed, Talbot Baines, 1852-1893

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Produced by Chris Curnow, RichardW, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

Z: Bibliography, Library science

Subject

Type and type-founding -- England -- History

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Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 54365

Release Date

March 14, 2017

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.A HIS­TORY OF THE OLD EN­GLISH LET­TER FOUN­DRIES.
2. 2.Untitled
3. 3.Untitled
4. 4.Untitled
5. 5.PREFACE.
6. 6.CONTENTS.
7. 7.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
8. 8.INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER THE TYPES AND TYPEFOUNDING OF THE FIRST PRINTERS.
9. 9.CHAPTER I THE ENGLISH TYPE BODIES AND FACES. — TYPE-BODIES. — C ANON. — D OUBLE P ICA , — P ARAGON , — G REAT P RIMER. — E NGLISH — P ICA. — S MALL P ICA , — L ONG P RIMER , — B OURGEOIS. — B REVIER. — M INION , — N ONPAREIL , — P EARL , — D IAMOND — I. —ROMAN. — I TALY. — G ERMANY. — F RANCE. — N ETHERLANDS. — S WITZERLAND — E NGLAND. — ITALIC. — BLACK LETTER. — SECRETARY.
10. 10.CHAPTER II. TYPE FACES ( CONTINUED ). THE LEARNED, FOREIGN, AND PECULIAR CHARACTERS. — GREEK. — HEBREW. — ARABIC. — SYRIAC. — ARMENIAN. — ETHIOPIC. — COPTIC. — SAMARITAN. — SCLAVONIC. — ETRUSCAN. — RUNIC. — GOTHIC. — ICELANDIC, SWEDISH AND DANISH. — SAXON. — IRISH. — MUSIC. — BLIND. — INITIALS. — TYPE ORNAMENTS AND FLOWERS.
11. 11.CHAPTER III. THE PRINTER LETTER-FOUNDERS, FROM CAXTON TO DAY. — Caxton’s six types — T YPE 1. — T YPE 2 — T YPE 3. — T YPE 4. — T YPE 5. — T YPE 6. — W YNKYN DE W ORDE — P YNSON , — W ILLIAM F AQUES , — J OHN D AY
12. 12.CHAPTER IV. LETTER-FOUNDING AS AN ENGLISH MECHANICAL TRADE. 1477–1830.
13. 13.CHAPTER V. THE STATE CONTROL OF ENGLISH LETTER-FOUNDING.
14. 14.CHAPTER VI. THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY FOUNDRY. — An Account of the Matrices, Puncheons, etc., given by Bishop Fell to the University of Oxford 262 :―
15. 15.CHAPTER VII. THE STAR CHAMBER FOUNDERS, AND THE LONDON POLYGLOT.
16. 16.CHAPTER VIII. JOSEPH MOXON, 1659.
17. 17.CHAPTER IX. THE LATER FOUNDERS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. — THOMAS GORING, 1668. JOSEPH LEE, 1669. — ROBERT ANDREWS, 1683. — “Mr. ROBERT ANDREWS’ FOUNDERY, 1706. — JAMES GROVER, circ. 1675. THOMAS GROVER, his son. 371 — “THE FOUNDERY OF THE TWO M R. GROVERS, circ. 1700. — GODFREY HEAD, 1685, 392 — ROBERT MITCHELL, — “Mr. ROBERT MITCHELL’S FOUNDERY. — THE “ANONYMOUS” FOUNDRY. — “THE ANONYMOUS FOUNDERY, absq. dat. — OXFORD FOUNDERS. — “ M R. SILVESTER ANDREWS’ FOUNDERY; furtim : — An Account of the Letter Presses and other Stock and Implements of and in the Printing house at Oxford belonging to John Baskett, Citizen and Staconer of London :―
18. 18.CHAPTER X. THOMAS AND JOHN JAMES, 1710. — “ M R. JAMES’S FOUNDERY.
19. 19.CHAPTER XI. WILLIAM CASLON, 1720. — “ M R. CASLON’S FOUNDERY. — LIST OF SPECIMENS OF THE CASLON FOUNDRY, 1734–1830.
20. 20.CHAPTER XII. ALEXANDER WILSON, 1742. — SPECIMEN BOOKS, 1783–1834.
21. 21.CHAPTER XIII. JOHN BASKERVILLE, 1752. — LIST OF BASKERVILLE’S SPECIMENS.
22. 22.CHAPTER XIV. THOMAS COTTRELL, 1757. — MR. COTTRELL’S FOUNDRY. — LIST OF SPECIMENS, 1760–1830.
23. 23.CHAPTER XV. JOSEPH AND EDMUND FRY, 1764. — DR. FRY’S FOUNDRY. — LIST OF SPECIMENS, 1768–1827.
24. 24.CHAPTER XVI. JOSEPH JACKSON, 1763. — “ M R. JACKSON’S FOUNDERY. — LIST OF SPECIMENS, 1765–1831.
25. 25.CHAPTER XVII. WILLIAM MARTIN, 1790.
26. 26.CHAPTER XVIII. VINCENT FIGGINS, 1792. — MR. FIGGINS’ FOUNDRY. — LIST OF SPECIMENS, 1792–1832.
27. 27.CHAPTER XIX. MINOR FOUNDERS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. — SKINNER, circ. 1710. — DUMMERS, circ. 1734. — JALLESON, circ. 1734. — JACOB ILIVE, circ. 1730. — “MR. ILIVE’S FOUNDERY, 1734. — THE WESTONS. — JOHN BAINE, 1749. — SPECIMENS. — GEORGE ANDERTON, 1753. — SPECIMEN. — HENRY FOUGT, circ. 1766. — SPECIMEN. — JOSEPH FENWICK, circ. 1770. — T. RICHARDS, 1778. — McPHAIL, 1778. — IMISSON, 1785. — MYLES SWINNEY, 1785. — SPECIMEN. — SIMEON & CHARLES STEPHENSON, 1789. — SPECIMENS.
28. 28.CHAPTER XX. WILLIAM MILLER, 1809. — LIST OF SPECIMENS, 1809–33.
29. 29.CHAPTER XXI. THE MINOR FOUNDERS, 1800–1830. — G. W. BOWER, circ. 1810. — BROWN, 1810.—LYNCH, 1810. — MATTHEWSON, circ. 1810. — ANTHONY BESSEMER, 1813. — SPECIMENS. — RICHARD AUSTIN, circ. 1815. — SPECIMENS. — LOUIS JOHN POUCHÉE, circ. 1815. — SPECIMENS. — RICHARD WATTS, circ. 1815. — HUGH HUGHES, 1824. — SPECIMENS. — BARTON, 1824. — HEAPHY, 1825; SIMMONS, 1825; BLACK, 1825.
30. 30.CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF ENGLISH LETTER-FOUNDERS’ SPECIMENS NOTED IN THIS WORK. 1665–1830.
31. 31.LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL AUTHORITIES CONSULTED OR REFERRED TO.
32. 32.INDEX.
33. 33.NOTES — INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER THE TYPES AND TYPE FOUNDING OF THE FIRST PRINTERS — 1. THE ENGLISH TYPE BODIES AND FACES — 2. THE LEARNED, FOREIGN, AND PECULIAR CHARACTERS — 3. THE PRINTER LETTER-FOUNDERS, FROM CAXTON TO DAY — 4. LETTER FOUNDING AS AN ENGLISH MECHANICAL TRADE — 5. THE STATE CONTROL OF ENGLISH LETTER-FOUNDING — 6. THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY FOUNDRY — 7. THE STAR CHAMBER FOUNDERS, AND THE LONDON POLYGLOT — 8. JOSEPH MOXON — 9. THE LATER FOUNDERS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY — 10. THOMAS AND JOHN JAMES, 1710 — 11. WILLIAM CASLON, 1720 — 12. ALEXANDER WILSON, 1742 — 13. JOHN BASKERVILLE, 1752 — 14. THOMAS COTTRELL, 1757 — 15. JOSEPH AND EDMUND FRY, 1764 — 16. JOSEPH JACKSON, 1763 — 17. WILLIAM MARTIN, 1790 — 18. VINCENT FIGGINS, 1792 — 19. MINOR FOUNDERS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY — 20. WILLIAM MILLER, 1809 — 21. THE MINOR FOUNDERS, 1800–1830
34. 34.Untitled
35. 35.Untitled

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