Joseph Moxon.
Born at Wakefeild August. 8.
Anno 1627.
MECHANICK EXERCISES:
Or, the Doctrine of
Handy-works.
Applied to the Art of
Printing.
By Joseph Moxon, Member of the Royal
Society, and Hydrographer to the King’s
Most Excellent Majesty.
LONDON.
Printed for Joseph Moxon on the Westside
of Fleet-ditch, at the Sign of Atlas.
1 6 8 3.
To the Right Reverend Father in GOD, JOHN Lord Bishop of Oxford, and Dean of Christ-Church; And to the Right Honourable Sir LEOLINE JENKINS Knight, and Principal Secretary of State; And to the Right Honourable Sir JOSEPH WILLIAMSON Knight; and one of His Majesties most Honourable Privy-Council.
Right Honourable.
YOur ardent affections to promote Typographie has eminently appeared in the great Charge you have been at to make it famous here in England; whereby this Royal Island stands particularly obliged to your Generous and Publick Spirits, and the whole Common-Wealth of Book-men throughout the World, to your Candid Zeal for the promulgation of good Learning.
Wherefore I humbly Dedicate this Piece of Typographie to your Honours; and as it is (I think) the first of this nature, so I hope you will favourably excuse small Faults in this Undertaking; for great ones I hope there are none, unless it be in this presumptuous Dedication; for which I humbly beg your Honours pardon: Subscribing my self, My Lord and Gentlemen,