A History of the Old English Letter Foundries: With Notes, Historical and Bibliographical, on the Rise and Progress of English Typography

Talbot Baines Reed

Elliot Stock, 1887 - Type and type-founding - 379 pages

Contents

• The English Type Bodies and Faces: 31
• The Learned Foreign and Peculiar Characters: 57
• The Printer LetterFounders from Caxton to Day 13: 83
• Letter Founding as an English Mechanical Trade: 102
• The State Control of English Letter Founding: 123
• The Oxford University Foundry: 137
• The Star Chamber Founders and the London Polyglot: 164
• Joseph Moxon: 180
• The Later Founders of the 17TH Century: 193
• Thomas and John James: 212
• William Caslon: 232
• Alexander Wilson: 257
• John Baskerville: 268
• Thomas Cottrell: 288
• Joseph and Edmund Fry: 298
• Joseph Jackson: 315
• William Martin: 330
• Vincent Fiugins: 335
• The Minor Founders or the i8th Century 345: 345
• William Miller: 355
• The Minor Founders from 1800 to 1830: 357

Bibliographic information

• Title: A History of the Old English Letter Foundries: With Notes, Historical and Bibliographical, on the Rise and Progress of English Typography
• Author: Talbot Baines Reed
• Publisher: Elliot Stock, 1887
• Original from: Harvard University
• Digitized: Apr 3, 2006
• Length: 379 pages