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 294
under the encouragement and favour ofhis new patron. Of his first introduction to typography, we quote the following accountgiven by Hansard on the authority of Alexander Wilsons son and grandson :3— 1 Specimen of Types in the Printing House of James Watson. 1713. 48 pp., of which 26are devoted to… … 68. From Hansard. I face p. 258. Alexander Wilson. 259 While he was thus passing his time in a manner which he considered com-fortable for one at his first entrance upon the world, a circumstance accidentallyoccurred which gave a new direction to his genius, and which in the end led to anentire…
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