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 182
yelegantly cut, which M. Ludolfus is bringing to Oxford from Holland. TheUniversity also purchased matrices of Pica-Roman and Italic in 1692, besidesadding to its stock some indifferent Great Primer matrices by Nichols, and musiccut by the Oxford founder, Walpergen.2 About the year 1669 the… … The Sheldonian Theatre. (From an old wood block in the Oxford University Press.) the earliest known Specimen of the several Sorts of Letter given to the Universityby Dr. John Fell, late Lord Bishop of Oxford, to which is added the Letter given 1 A. J. Butler, Ancient Coptic Churches of Egypt.…
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