FOOTNOTES:
[1] The Fleuron, a journal of typography, edited by Oliver Simon, 1923.
[2] A Concise History of the Origin and Progress of Printing, with practical instructions to the trade in general. London, 1770, pp. 287–90.
[3] T. B. Reed, A History of the Old English Letter-Foundries, 1887, p. 28.
[4] A. W. Pollard, Early Illustrated Books, 1893, p. 228.
[5] C. Sayle, “Initial Letters in Early English Printed Books” (Transactions of the Bibliographical Society).
[6] Harl. 5915 (45).
[7] English Provincial Printers, Stationers and Bookbinders to 1557. Sandars Lectures, 1911. Cambridge, 1912, 8vo.
[8] Two Centuries of Type-founding. [By J. F. McRae.] 1920.
[9] Harl. 5929.
[10] H. Hart, Notes on a Century of Typography, 1900, p. 145.
[11] The Charles Whittinghams Printer, 1896.
Transcriber’s Notes:
1. Obvious printers’, punctuation and spelling errors have been corrected silently.
2. Where hyphenation is in doubt, it has been retained as in the original.
3. Some hyphenated and non-hyphenated versions of the same words have been retained as in the original.