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

[683] Bibl. Decam., ii, 384.

[684] The Poetical Works of John Milton, with a life of the Author by William Hayley. London: 1794–7. 3 vols. Folio.

[685] See ante, p. [251].

[686] Bibl. Decam., ii, 384.

[687] Poems by Goldsmith and Parnell. London: 1795. 4to. This work was illustrated with woodcuts by Bewick. It is said that George III ordered his bookseller to procure the blocks of the engravings for his inspection, that he might convince himself they were wood and not copper.

[688] Typographia, p. 311.

[689] Nichols, Illust. Lit., viii, 485.

[690] Musæus. The Loves of Hero and Leander. (Greek and English.) London. Printed by W. Bulmer & Co. Typis Gulielmi Martin. 1797. 4to. This work was privately printed by Mr. Bulmer for Mr. Grosvenor Bedford, the translator.

[691] The Press: a Poem. Published as a Specimen of Typography by John M ^cCreery. Liverpool: printed by J. M ^cCreery. Houghton Street, 1803. 4to.

[692] Typographical Antiquities, &c., greatly enlarged, with copious notes, by T. F. Dibdin, London: 1810–12–16–19. 4 vols. 4to. The work was not completed. The first volume was not printed at the Shakespeare Press.