GEORGE ANDERTON, 1753.
George Anderton, of Birmingham, appears to have been one of the earliest of English provincial letter founders. Mores says he “attempted” letter founding, and in the year 1753 printed a little specimen of Great Primer Roman and Italic. Samuel Caslon, brother to Caslon I, worked as a mould maker in this foundry after having left the latter on account of some dispute.
SPECIMEN.
- 1753. A Specimen of Great Primer by George Anderton, Birmingham, 1753. (Noted by Mores.) (Lost.)
HENRY FOUGT, circ. 1766.
This man, a German, lived in St. Martin’s Lane about the year 1766, and, in the following year, took out a patent for “Certain new and curious types by me invented for the printing of music notes as neatly and as well, in every respect, as hath usually been done by engraving.” The Invention consisted in the use of sectional types “in many respects similar to what in former ages was used in printing-offices and known by the name of choral type.” An explanatory note, {351} setting forth the details of his scheme, accompanies the specification.[734] Fougt issued a specimen of his new type in 1768, and is said to have been the only printer of music from type of his day who produced any good work. Mores says that he returned to Germany, after selling his patent to one Falconer, a disappointed harpsichord maker.
SPECIMEN.
- 1768. Specimen of a New Type for Music by H. Fougt. In Six Sonatas by Uttini. 3 vols. London, 1768. Folio. (Bibl. Pr. i, 226.)