[425] “Such as those which being uniques cannot be perfected without new punches, and if they were made complete, it would be no more than oleum et operam, etc., because they are either out of use or the times afford better, as the Antique Hebrew (spec. 7); Leusden’s Samaritan (spec. 27); 2-line Great Primer Hebrew (spec. 38); the Runic, Gothic, and some other recondites, the matrices for which are incomplete or useless. But of the founts which are in daily use the imperfects will continue, as they mutually aid and help out one another. For the same reason also will continue those which have been cast aside (not by their owner) under the name of waste.”
[426] In another place Mr. Mores states that the “waste and pye” of the foundry contained upwards of 6,000 matrices.
[427] This is the old Black from Grover’s foundry; see ante, p. [199].
[428] This sly allusion leaves little doubt as to the light in which Mr. Mores viewed the Coster legend so industriously defended by such writers of his own day as Meerman, Bowyer and Nichols.
[429] “Excusatos nos habeant eruditi quibus obvenerit typorum Jamesianorum specimen accuratis perlustrare oculis, quod minus quam expetendum esset, in linguis præsertim reconditoribus, elimatum prodeat; in animo erat de dedisse emendatissimum et si sat se fecisse existiment opifices, si, posthabitis preli, ceterisque maculis, ostendatur literarum facies—limæ non defuit labor,—at cessante Fusore cessavit Fornax et defuerunt fusi ad emaculandum typi.”—Preface to the Specimen.
[430] i.e., [P.] Polyglot, [A.] Andrews, [G.] Grover, [R.] Rolij, [N.] Nicholls, [S.A.] Sylvester Andrews, [Anon.] “Anonymous.” Of founts marked *, punches or matrices still exist.
[431] Two sets of Small Pica and two sets of Pearl not shown in Specimen, were also sold. A Canon, 2-line Great Primer, three Great Primers, an English, Pica, and Bourgeois, had been lost.
[432] It is to be borne in mind that Andrews’ foundry included that of Moxon, from whom many of his oldest founts doubtless came.
[433] A Great Primer, Pica, Small Pica and Long Primer had been lost, but the Long Primer punches remained.
[434] A 2-line English, Double Pica and Pica had been lost.