MINOR FOUNDERS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
SKINNER, circ. 1710.
HIS founder is mentioned by Mores as a contemporary of Robert Andrews and Head. Nothing, however, is known of his types.
DUMMERS, circ. 1734.
Mores says he was a Dutchman who founded in this country, where he cut the fount of Pica Samaritan which appears in Caslon’s Specimen of 1734.[719] He subsequently returned to his native country. Smith, in his Printers’ Grammar, after referring to the genius of Van Dijk, mentions Voskin and Dommer (sic) as having “been considered as two Worthies, for their abilities in their profession.” We append a specimen of the Samaritan fount:—
[Μ] 78. Pica Samaritan, cut by Dummers for Caslon, circ. 1734. (From the original Matrices.)
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