[339] Mechanick Exercises, or the Doctrine of Handy-Works. Began Jan. 1, 1677. And intended to be Monthly continued. By Joseph Moxon, Hydrographer to the King’s Most Excellent Majesty. London. Printed for Joseph Moxon on Ludgate Hill at the Sign of the Atlas. Two vols., 4to.

Vol. I (14 numbers). The Smiths, the Joyners, the Carpenters, and the Turner’s Trades. 1677–80.

Vol. II (24 numbers). Applied to the Art of Printing, 1683–6. (Dedicated to Dr. Fell, Bishop of Oxford.)

[340] Mores says that before Moxon’s time letter-cutters worked by eye and hand only, and practised their art by guess-work (Dissert., p. 43).

[341] See chap. iv.

[342] Or rather a hair space, of which seven go to the body; so that one such space divided by six would give a 42nd part!

[343] See ante, p. [109].

[344] Of the eighteen letters of the alphabet, the b, c, h, l, m, n, o, s, u, are in Roman, the a and e in Italic.

[345] A copy of this rare broadside is in the Library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

[346] The full title of this rare little tract, consisting of eight leaves only, is translated as follows:—Aibidil Gaoidheilge Caiticiosma, etc. (The Irish Alphabet and Catechism, precept or instruction of a Christian, together with certain articles of a Christian faith which are proper for everyone to adopt who would be submissive to the ordinance of God and the Queen of this Kingdom. Translated from Latin and English into Irish by John O’Kearney . . Printed in the town of the Ford of Hurdles, (Dublin), at the cost of Master John Ussher, Alderman, at the head of the Bridge, the 20th of June 1571, with the privilege of the great Queen. 1571.) 8vo.