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

[116] Gresswell mentions an Alphabetum Græcum, published in 1543, as a preliminary specimen.

[117] The history of these famous types, the matrices of which for some years lay in pawn at Geneva, whence they were released at a cost of 3,000 livres in 1619, may be read in M. Bernard’s Les Estienne et les types grecs de François I ^er. Paris, 1856. 8vo.

[118] Greek printing did not become common in Spain till a later period. A book printed at Oriola in 1603 contains an apology for the want of Greek types.

[119] See specimen No. 28, post.

[120] See specimen No. 29, post.

[121] See specimen No. 69, post.

[122] See specimen No. 71, post.

[123] De Hebraicæ typographiæ origine. Parma, 1776. 4to.

[124] Les Incunables Orientaux. Paris, 1883. 8vo.

[125] Recherches . . sur la Vie et les Editions de Thierry Martens. Alost, 1845. 8vo.