A History of the Old English Letter Foundries / with Notes, Historical and Bibliographical, on the Rise and Progress of English Typography.
A HISTORY
OF THE
OLD ENGLISH LETTER FOUNDRIES,
WITH NOTES,
Historical and Bibliographical,
ON THE
RISE AND PROGRESS OF ENGLISH TYPOGRAPHY.
TALBOT BAINES REED.
LONDON:
ELLIOT STOCK, 62, PATERNOSTER ROW, E.C.
1887.
N this age of progress, when the fine arts are rapidly becoming trades, and the machine is on every side superseding that labour of head and hand which our fathers called Handicraft, we are in danger of losing sight of, or, at least, of undervaluing the genius of those who, with none of our mechanical advantages, established and made famous in our land those arts and handicrafts of which we are now the heritors.
Talbot Baines Reed
---
PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
MR. FIGGINS’ FOUNDRY.
INDEX.
NOTES
1. THE ENGLISH TYPE BODIES AND FACES
2. THE LEARNED, FOREIGN, AND PECULIAR CHARACTERS
4. LETTER FOUNDING AS AN ENGLISH MECHANICAL TRADE
5. THE STATE CONTROL OF ENGLISH LETTER-FOUNDING
6. THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY FOUNDRY
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
