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

Ditto marks have often been eliminated, using text replication when necessary. Large curly brackets “{ }” used as graphic devices to combine information over two or more lines have been removed from the text everywhere. For example, in the table on page [35], first column, 9th and 10th rows, there was a two-row bracket suggesting that “9.” applies to both rows. Herein, “9.” was simply duplicated to indicate that fact. The row headed by “17. Pearl” contains in the second column, in the original printed book, two rows containing “Parisienne or Sedan.” and “Perle.”, enclosed in two-row brackets. Herein, table-cell borders have been drawn to suggest this combination.

[CONTENTS]

[LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS]

• Page [xi], CONTENTS. The chapter 3 page reference was changed to 83, from 13.
• Page [32]n. “fromer” to “former”.
• Page [35]. “Grobe” to “Große”, in two places in the table.
• Page [38]. “Geeek” to “Greek”.
• Page [49]. The left double quotation mark in ‘observed in 1825, “have left’ has no closing mark. Several other puzzling usages of quotation marks elsewhere have also been retained.
• Page [156]. The illustration has been changed from number 41 to 31, to agree with the List of Illustrations.
• Page [190]n. The phrase or here (Mason’s was changed to or here” (Mason’s, by inserting the missing right double quotation mark.
• Page [205]n. The phrase “P. VergiliI Maronis Codex” is retained as printed.
• Page [221]. The illustration is provided below in tabular transcription form.
• (De Worde)
• (Day)
• (Priv­i­leged prin­ters)
• The Poly­glot Foun­ders 1637–1667
• Mox­on 1659–1683
• (Wal­per­gen) 1673–1714
• Jas. Gro­ver 1680–1700
• R. An­drews 1683–1733
• (Rolij) 1710
• S. An­drews 1714–1733
• Ilive 1730–1740
• Head 1685–1700 (?)
• Thos. Grover 1700–1758
• Thos. James 1710–1736
• Mitchell 1700–1739
• John James 1736–1772
  the last of the Old English Letter Founders.
• Caslon
• Page [274]n. A matching right double quotation mark was inserted after ‘Η Καινη Διαθηκη’.
• Page [320]. Changed “emploeyd” to “employed”.
• Page [369] INDEX. The use of punctuation, particularly semicolons, colons, and the 3-em dashes that function as ditto marks, seems often inconsistent or strange. It is generally retained herein as printed. The organization and structure of the original index is retained as well.

(De Worde)	(Day)
	(Priv­i­leged prin­ters)
	The Poly­glot Foun­ders 1637–1667	Mox­on 1659–1683		(Wal­per­gen) 1673–1714
Jas. Gro­ver 1680–1700		R. An­drews 1683–1733	(Rolij) 1710	S. An­drews 1714–1733	Ilive 1730–1740	Head 1685–1700 (?)
Thos. Grover 1700–1758			Thos. James 1710–1736			Mitchell 1700–1739
John James 1736–1772 the last of the Old English Letter Founders.						Caslon