[466] Anec. Bowyer, p. 537.
[468] Psalmorum Liber. (Heb. et Lat.) in Versiculos metrice divisus, etc. Londini 1736. 2 vols., 8vo.
[469] Moses Choronensis Historiæ Armeniacæ Libri iii. Armeniacè ediderunt, Latinè verterunt notisq: illustr. Guil. et Geo. Whistoni. London, 1736. 4to.
[470] De Linguâ Etruriæ. J. Swinton. Oxon., 1738.
[471] This fount may be seen also in Nichols’ Appendix to Rowe Mores’ Dissertation, p. 96, and in Ames’ Typographical Antiquities, 1st edit., p. 571.
[472] If these were the matrices which Mores, in his summary of the Polyglot Foundry (p. [172], ante), described as Great Primer, it is difficult—unless they were duplicates—to determine through whose foundry they passed into Caslon’s hands. Andrews had a Great Primer, and Grover a Double Pica and Pica; but all these came to James, in whose foundry they remained when Mores wrote in 1778.
[473] Cyclopædia, or an Universal Dictionary of the Arts and Sciences, etc., by E. Chambers, F.R.S., London, 1738. 2 vols., fol. (Caslon’s Specimen faces the article “Letter.”) The first edition of this valuable work—the first repertory of general knowledge published in Britain—appeared in 1728. It subsequently formed the basis of Rees’ Encyclopædia.