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A History of the Old English Letter Foundries / with Notes, Historical and Bibliographical, on the Rise and Progress of English Typography.

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A detailed historical and bibliographical account of English letter founding that traces the technical processes, the origins and evolution of typefaces, and the workshops and institutions that produced them. It combines practical descriptions of casting and moulding with critical examination of early printing practices, type bodies, and face designs, and offers biographical and chronological treatment of individual foundries. The work supplements narrative chapters with specimen listings, bibliographies, and archival research, evaluates earlier scholarship, and presents documentary discoveries intended to support typographical study and the preservation of the craft’s material legacy.

INDEX.

Acta Apostolorum, Gr., Lat. (Laud. Codex), Oxford 1715; 321

Acta Sanctorum Hiberniæ, Louvain, 1645; 75

Adams (Geo.), successor to Moxon, 192

Advertisement of Caxton, 49, 87

Ælfredi Res Gestæ, Lond. 1574; 73, 95, 96, 98, 144, 176

Ælfric’s Paschal Homily, Lond. 1567; 73, 95: Lond. 1623; 73

Æneas Silvius, Louvain, 1483; 43

Æsop’s Fables, Milan, 1480; 57: Louvain, 1513; 59

Aldus Manutius, Specimen, 49, 169; ‘Silver type’, 106; Greek, 58; Hebrew, 62; Initials, 80; Italic, 50; Ornaments, 82; Roman, 41

Alexandrian Greek, matrices, Grover, 198, 204, 321; James, 228, 303, 321; Fry, 303, 304, 311, 321; Jackson, 321, 322

Alfieri, Works of, Kehl, 1786–1809; 286

Alphabet Irlandais, Paris, 1804; 76, 191

Alphabetarium Runic-Swed., Stockholm, 1611; 72

Alphabetum, Heb., Gr., Paris 1507; 62: Paris 1516; 63

Amerbach, Roman type of, 43

America, first letter-founders in, 350

Ames (Jos.) on Caxton’s types, 84, 242; on Caslon’s, 242; inaccuracy of, 349

Amharic, same as Ethiopic, 69, 177; Castell’s, 177; Oxford, 177; Fry, 309, 311

Amman (Jost), Book of Trades, 104

ANDERTON (GEO.) founder, 246, 350; specimen of, 350

ANDREWS (ROB.) 157, 166, 194197; succeeds Moxon, 194; punches cut by, 74, 157, 196; summary of foundry, 195; foundry sold, 197

——— Matrices: Anglo-Norman, 196; Arabic, 195; Blacks, 194, 196, 312; Ethiopic, 194, 193; Greek, 195, 197; Hebrew, 194, 195; Irish, 194, 196; Music, 77, 196; Roman and Italic, 195, 197; Samaritan, 70, 195; Saxon, 74, 157, 196; Secretary, 196; Signs, etc., 196; Syriac, 195, 241

ANDREWS (SYL.) son of above, 149, 195, 209; supplies Baskett, 210; foundry sold, 211; epitaph, 211

ANDREWS (SYL.) Matrices: Hebrew, 209; Roman and Italic, 209, 210

‘ANONYMOUS FOUNDRY,’ 206

——— Matrices: Anglo-Norman, 207; Arabic, 207; Black, 207; Ethiopic, 207; Gothic, 207; Greek, 207; Roman, 207

Anglo-Norman Matrices: Andrews, 196; ‘Anon,’, 207; James, 223, 228

Anglo-Saxon; see Saxon

Anthologia, Gr., Florence 1494; 57

Antimony, discovered, 20; use of in type metal, 20, 117; prices of, 118

Antiqua, German name for Roman, 42; Italian ditto, 42

Antiques linguæ Brit, rudimenta, Lond. 1621; 64

Applegarth (A.) type-casting machine of, 121

Apprentice-founders, regulation of, 130, 133; in France, 129

Aquinas (St. Th.) Summa, 1462; 54

Arabic, first types of, 65; printed in Black or Hebrew, 65; early in Italy, 65, 66; Paris, 65; Leyden, 65, 141, 144; Upsala, 66

——— in England, first types, 66; printed in Italic, 66; written by hand, 66; De Worde’s, 66, 91; Bedwell’s, 66, 145; none at Oxford, 1639, 66: Flesher’s, 66

——— Matrices: Oxford, 66, 147, 148, 155, 161; Polyglot, 66, 173, 174, 177, 198; Andrews, 195; Grover, 198, 235; ‘Anon,’ 207; James, 67, 223, 228, 303; Caslon, 67, 235, 240, 247, 254; Fry, 67, 303, 309, 311; Caslon III, 326

——— Punches: James, 229

Arabian Trudgman, Lond. 1615; 66

Arba Turim, Pheibia, 1475; 62

Arber (E.) on early English printers, 125

Archaionomia, Lond. 1568; 95

Areopagitica of Milton, 130

Aristotle, Venice, 1495; 58

Armenian, first types, 68; at Rome, 68; Paris, 68; Amsterdam, 68; Marseilles, 68; Constantinople, 68

——— Matrices: Oxford, 62, 148, 153, 161; Caslon, 69, 239, 240, 247, 254; Caslon III, 326

Aspinwall (T.) type-casting machine of, 122

Astle (T.) on early type ‘bills,’ 28; on Day’s Saxon, 96

Atanasia, Spanish type body, 37

Athias (Jos.) Dutch founder, 114, 215; Hebrew type of, 64, 215, 238, 264

Attempts to convert the Native Irish, Lond., n.d., 190

Augustin, a type body, 32, 37

Augustini, De Civitate Dei, Rome, 1474; 37: Basle, 1506; 37

AUSTIN (RICHD.) letter founder, 359; cuts punches for Stephenson, 353, 359; Wilson, 360; and Miller, 355, 360; starts a foundry, 360; specimen and advertisement, 360; anecdote of, 360; his successors, 360

——— Matrices, Roman and Italic, 360