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
On the lower of thetwo shelves above the furnace are some crucibles, in which the metals would bemixed before filling up the casting-pan. On the upper shelf, besides three moremoulds, are some sieves, suggestive of the use of sand, either for moulding largeletters, 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 theBritish Museum,2 shows the two departments of the typographers art going on in 1 Eygentliche Beschreibung alter Stdnde und . . .…
Typography · Printing
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