[Gutenberg 54365] • A History of the Old English Letter Foundries / with Notes, Historical and Bibliographical, on the Rise and Progress of English Typography. by Reed, Talbot Baines -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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A HISTORY OF THE OLD ENGLISH LETTER FOUNDRIES. PREFACE. CONTENTS. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. THE TYPES AND TYPEFOUNDING OF THE FIRST PRINTERS. CHAPTER I. THE ENGLISH TYPE BODIES AND FACES.

TYPE-BODIES

CANON DOUBLE PICA PARAGON GREAT PRIMER ENGLISH PICA SMALL PICA LONG PRIMER BOURGEOIS BREVIER MINION NONPAREIL PEARL DIAMOND

I. ROMAN

ITALY GERMANY FRANCE NETHERLANDS SWITZERLAND ENGLAND

ITALIC BLACK LETTER SECRETARY

CHAPTER II. 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

CHAPTER III. THE PRINTER LETTER-FOUNDERS, FROM CAXTON TO DAY.

CAXTON’S SIX TYPES

TYPE 1 TYPE 2 TYPE 3 TYPE 4 TYPE 5 TYPE 6

WYNKYN DE WORDE PYNSON WILLIAM FAQUES JOHN DAY

CHAPTER IV. LETTER-FOUNDING AS AN ENGLISH MECHANICAL TRADE.—1477–1830. CHAPTER V. THE STATE CONTROL OF ENGLISH LETTER-FOUNDING. CHAPTER VI. THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY FOUNDRY.

MATRICES, PUNCHEONS, etc., GIVEN BY BISHOP FELL TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

CHAPTER VII. THE STAR CHAMBER FOUNDERS, AND THE LONDON POLYGLOT. CHAPTER VIII. JOSEPH MOXON, 1659. CHAPTER IX. THE LATER FOUNDERS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.

THOMAS GORING, 1668, and JOSEPH LEE, 1669 ROBERT ANDREWS, 1683

Mr. ROBERT ANDREWS’ FOUNDERY, 1706

JAMES GROVER, circ. 1675, and THOMAS GROVER, his son

THE FOUNDERY OF THE TWO MR. GROVERS, circ. 1700.

GODFREY HEAD, 1685 ROBERT MITCHELL

Mr. ROBERT MITCHELL’S FOUNDERY

THE “ANONYMOUS” FOUNDRY

THE ANONYMOUS FOUNDERY, absq. dat.

OXFORD FOUNDERS

Mr. SILVESTER ANDREWS’ FOUNDERY JOHN BASKETT'S STOCK AND IMPLEMENTS

CHAPTER X. THOMAS AND JOHN JAMES, 1710.

Mr. JAMES’S FOUNDERY

CHAPTER XI. WILLIAM CASLON, 1720.

Mr. CASLON’S FOUNDERY LIST OF SPECIMENS OF THE CASLON FOUNDRY, 1734–1830

CHAPTER XII. ALEXANDER WILSON, 1742.

SPECIMEN BOOKS, 1783–1834

CHAPTER XIII. JOHN BASKERVILLE, 1752.

LIST OF BASKERVILLE’S SPECIMENS

CHAPTER XIV. THOMAS COTTRELL, 1757.

MR. COTTRELL’S FOUNDRY LIST OF SPECIMENS, 1760–1830

CHAPTER XV. JOSEPH AND EDMUND FRY, 1764.

DR. FRY’S FOUNDRY LIST OF SPECIMENS, 1768–1827

CHAPTER XVI. JOSEPH JACKSON, 1763.

Mr. JACKSON’S FOUNDERY LIST OF SPECIMENS, 1765–1831

CHAPTER XVII. WILLIAM MARTIN, 1790. CHAPTER XVIII. VINCENT FIGGINS, 1792.

MR. FIGGINS’ FOUNDRY. LIST OF SPECIMENS, 1792–1832

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

CHAPTER XX. WILLIAM MILLER, 1809.

LIST OF SPECIMENS, 1809–33

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

CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF ENGLISH LETTER-FOUNDERS’ SPECIMENS NOTED IN THIS WORK. 1665–1830. LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL AUTHORITIES CONSULTED OR REFERRED TO. INDEX. 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

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