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

20. WILLIAM MILLER, 1809

[738] Bibliography of Printing, ii, 42.

[739] Typog., p. 366.

[740] Ibid., p. 361.

[741] A specimen of this type “the smallest ever manufactured in this country,” was exhibited, and contains the whole of Gray’s Elegy in 32 verses, in 2 columns, measuring 3 ³⁄₄ inches each in depth.

[742] Dictionary for the Pocket; French and English; English and French, &c., by John Bellows, Gloucester, from type cast specially for the work by Miller and Richard, Type founders to the Queen, Edinburgh. 1873. 24mo.

21. THE MINOR FOUNDERS, 1800–1830

[743] Sheffield, 3rd edit., 1841, 12mo. A similar proposal, only with Nonpareil as the standard, was made about 1824 by James Fergusson, whose scheme is quoted in extenso by Hansard in his Typographia, p. 388.

[744] The Printer’s Assistant, containing a Sketch of the History of Printing, etc. London, 1810. 12mo.

[745] Typog., p. 382.