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 124
so becameenvied by the rest of his fraternity, who hindered, what they could, the saleof his books; and he had in the year 1572, upon his hands, to the value of two orthree thousand pounds worth, a great summ in those days. But living underAldersgate, an obscure corner of the city, he wanted a good… … 19. Portrait of John Day, 1562. (From the Colophon to Peter Martirs Commentaries on the Romans, 1568.) The Printer Letter-Founders, from Caxton to Day. 101 Whereupon his friends, who were the learned, procured him from the Dean andChapter of St. Pauls, a lease of a little shop to be set up in St.…
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