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 384
CHAPTER XVIII. VINCENT FIGGINS, 1792. … HIS excellent letter-founder was bound apprentice to JosephJackson in the year 1782, at the age of 16, and remainedin his service till Jacksons death in 1792. During the lastthree years of his masters life, as has been already said, theentire management of the foundry devolved on him ; andthe…
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