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

[146] See facsimile No. 20, post.

[147] See specimen No. 48, post.

[148] See specimen No. 45, post.

[149] Music engraved on wood was used as late as 1845, in Oakley’s Laudes Diurnæ.

[150] See specimen No. 54, post.

[151] Essai sur l’Education des Aveugles. Dedié au Roi. À Paris. Imprimé par les Enfants Aveugles. 1786. 4to. The work is printed in the large script letter of the press, but not in relief. Appended are specimens of circulars, addresses, etc., printed in ordinary type, for the use of the public.

[152] A curious collection of these may be seen in the Quincuplex Psalterium, printed by Henri Estienne I, at Paris, in 1513.

3. THE PRINTER LETTER-FOUNDERS, FROM CAXTON TO DAY

[153] The Life and Typography of William Caxton, England’s first Printer. 2 vols. London, 1861–3. 4to.

[154] Mr. Figgins, apparently misled by the irregularities in form consequent on the touching-up of Type No. 2, concluded that the whole of the types in which this book was printed were cut separately by hand.