A history of the old English letter foundries, with notes, historical and bibliographical, on the rise and progress of English typography (1887)
Reed, Talbot Baines, 1852-1893 · London : E. Stock · leaf 130
e lower of the two shelves above the furnace are some crucibles, in which the metals would be mixed before filling up the casting-pan. On the upper shelf, besides three more moulds, are some sieves, suggestive of the use of sand, either for moulding large letters, or, as Mr. Blades suggests, for… … 24. Letter-founding and Printing, circa 1548. (From the cut in the Harleian MSS.) of perhaps a still earlier date, which we here reproduce from the original in the British Museum,2 shows the two departments of the typographer's art going on in 1 Eygentliche Beschreihung atter Stande und . . .…
Typography · Printing
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