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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 (1887)

Reed, Talbot Baines, 1852-1893 · London : E. Stock · leaf 140

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Letter-Founding as an English Mechanical Trade. 115 —possibly breaking them off at the same time. Beyond is a dresser grooving out the break in a stick of types. EcceTjyii addjuionpArvumFBfonhcmorcir jSciiicettXi ni tean i^fp 1 en di'da. Sign xfaa t ZcIa-ndeMf doi-isie tut, C&raAtzres Ziajustzj-Je… … 26. Letter-founding in France in 1718. (From Thiboust's Typographic Excellentia.) Of the portion of the poem devoted to letter-founding,1 we venture to give the following rough translation :— ' "Liquator. " Ecce Liquator adest; en crebris ignibus ardet Ejus materies ; prsebet Cochleare, Catillum Et…

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