[7] Testy.
[8] Mark Noble, who was born in Birmingham in 1754. His father sold beads, knives, toys, etc., to the slave traders. In 1781 he was presented to two “starvation livings,” as he called them, in Warwickshire. He divided his interests then among his congregation, his books, and his farm. His writings were those of an imperfectly educated, vulgar-minded man. His ignorance of English grammar and composition rendered his books hard to read and occasionally unintelligible, while the moral reflections with which they abounded were puerile. (Dictionary of National Biography.)
[9] Chambers’s Biographical Illustrations.
[10] Edward Rowe Mores was a crusty, crabbed clergyman, who collected different founts of types, and obtained much information upon the subject of type-founding. He printed eighty copies of the book quoted above, and Nichols bought the whole of them. See Nichols’s Literary Anecdotes, volume v, page 389.
[11] The Bookhunter (1885), page 67.
[12] Reed’s Old English Letter Foundries, pages 269, 271, 277, 279.
[13] Dent and Straus, John Baskerville, page 64.
[14] Autobiography of Alexander Carlyle, D.D.
[15] Straus, Robert Dodsley, page 272.
[16] Dictionary of National Biography.