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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.

Chapter 161: 21. THE MINOR FOUNDERS, 1800–1830
By Talbot Baines Reed
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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.

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.

746 See ante, p. 253–4; also Johnson’s Typographia, ii, 652.

747 Mr. Branston was an engraver, and resided at Beaufort Buildings, Strand, in 1824. He attempted a new system of printing music, by striking the punches deeper than usual in the plate, so that when a stereo cast was taken from it, the notes appeared sufficiently in relief to be printed at a type press.

748 See ante, p. 121. M. Didot’s invention had been previously tried by Henry Caslon, but unsuccessfully.

749 This appears to be an anachronism. There was no association of Type Founders between 1820 and 1830.

750 Hansard, Typog., p. 361.

751 Johnson, in 1824, gives a list of nine founders (including Pouchée), at that time trading in London. (Typog., ii, 652.)