A History of the Old English Letter Foundries / with Notes, Historical and Bibliographical, on the Rise and Progress of English Typography.

by Talbot Baines Reed

BELL and STEPHENSON, letter founders, [353]

Bellows’ French Dictionary, Edinburgh, 1873; [356]

Bengalee matrices, Jackson, [317], [318]; Wilkins, [318]

Bensley (T.) printer, employs Figgins, [336]

Bernard (A.) on sculpto-fusi types, [8]; sand-cast type, [10], [12]; ‘getté en molle,’ [13]; on early founts, [27]

Berte (A. F.) type-casting machine of, [119], [120]

Berthelet (T.) types of, [94]; Boke named the Governour, [94]

BESLEY (ROBT.) partner of Thorowgood, [296]

BESSEMER (ANT.) letter founder, [254], [265], [358]; starts at Charlton, [358]; joined, by J. J. Catherwood, [358]; removes to London, [359]; minute types cut by, [358], [359]; foundry sold, [359]; specimens, [358], [359]

——— Matrices:—Roman and Italic, [359]