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Historic printing types, a lecture read before the Grolier club of New York, January 25, 1885, with additions and new illustrations; (1886)

De Vinne, Theodore Low, 1828-1914, Grolier Club · New York, The Grolier club · leaf 62

An illustration from Historic printing types, a lecture read before the Grolier club of New York, January 25, 1885, with additions and new illustrations;, 1886, leaf 62 — VIII Styles of Caslon and Baskerville. OSEPH MOXON, "mathematical instrument maker, A founder from 1659 to and nydrographer to his majesty, Charles u.," ices. was the first English type-founder of note.1 His types cannot be compared with those of his more eminent rivals in France and Holland, but… … ''-^-'-^-'-^-'--^-'-^^"^ Model Letters from Moxon's "Mechanick Exercises," 1683. xvnth century. Before and after his time, publishers and men of letters preferred foreign types. The University of Foreign types preferred. Oxford in 1672 paid £4000, a very large sum at that time, 1 The type-founding…

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