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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 148

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ch this is the first patented attempt in England, was notgenerally adopted till after the International Exhibition of 1851, at which the hand-mouldalone was shown. The model generally adopted was the machine patented in America in1838, by David Bruce, which Alexander Wilson introduced in this… … UR Statute Books and Public Records do not throwany very important light on the early history of Englishletter-founding. Although a busy import trade in typeappears to have been maintained by theearliest printers,and although as early as the days of De Worde, as wehave seen, there were English…

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