L’Estrange (R.) Surveyor of Imprimery, [132]
Le Tailleur, Rouen printer for Pynson, [92]
Letter-cutting by eye, not by rule, [184]
Letter Founders, one named in 1597, [128], [164]; regulations of, in 1622, [129], [164]; in 1637, [130]; in 1662, [132]; in 1674, [133]; in 1693, [134]; called to account, [133], [134], [193], [205]; petition and ‘Cause of Complaint’ of one, in 1637, [167]; To His Majesty, [178], [249], [296], [307], [329], [356]; limited number of, [118], [134]; Association of, [118], [250], [352], [353], [358]
Letter Founding of the first printers, [9], [12], [14], [18]; early secrecy of, [28]; spread of, [28]
——— In France: State control of, [129]; Thiboust’s account of, [114]; views of in Encyclopædia, [116]; Fournier’s account of, [117]
——— In Germany: at Frankfort, in 1568, [105]
——— In Netherlands: Plantin’s Foundry, [106]; James’ account of Dutch founders, [113], [213]–7
——— In England: came after printing, [84]; earliest record of, [93]; early practice of, [103]; curious cut in the Bagford MSS., [105]; divorce from printing, [164]; practised by Day, [96]; early unlicensed, [128]; the London Polyglot a land-mark of, [175]; Moxon’s account of, 1683, [107]–13, [183]–6; at Oxford, in 1695, [113]; custom of lending casters and matrices, [113], [216]; division of trades in, [114], [184]; trade jealousies in, [114], [118]; Universal Magazine, 1750, account in, [108], [116]; secret operations in, [117], [288], [315], [338]; rules of Thorne’s Foundry, 1806, [117], [294]; conservatism of, [118]; competition in, [118]; State-control of, [123]–136; liberty of, [134]; final emancipation of, [135]
Lettres Tourneures, initials, [79]