Antimony, discovered, [20]; use of in type metal, [20], [117]; prices of, [118]
Antiqua, German name for Roman, [42]; Italian ditto, [42]
Antiques linguæ Brit, rudimenta, Lond. 1621; [64]
Applegarth (A.) type-casting machine of, [121]
Apprentice-founders, regulation of, [130], [133]; in France, [129]
Aquinas (St. Th.) Summa, 1462; [54]
Arabic, first types of, [65]; printed in Black or Hebrew, [65]; early in Italy, [65], [66]; Paris, [65]; Leyden, [65], [141], [144]; Upsala, [66]
——— in England, first types, [66]; printed in Italic, [66]; written by hand, [66]; De Worde’s, [66], [91]; Bedwell’s, [66], [145]; none at Oxford, 1639, [66]: Flesher’s, [66]
——— Matrices: Oxford, [66], [147], [148], [155], [161]; Polyglot, [66], [173], [174], [177], [198]; Andrews, [195]; Grover, [198], [235]; ‘Anon,’ [207]; James, [67], [223], [228], [303]; Caslon, [67], [235], [240], [247], [254]; Fry, [67], [303], [309], [311]; Caslon III, [326]
——— Punches: James, [229]