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 394
epared in colour exactly to match each distinct book. The type beingthen set on the marks made by tracing, in all the rude manner and at the same unequal distancesobservable in the original, they will bear the strictest scrutiny and comparison with their pro-totype ; it being impossible to make a… … SKINNER, circ. 1710. HIS founder is mentioned by Mores as a contemporary ofRobert Andrews and Head. Nothing, however, is knownof his types. DUMMERS, circ. 1734. Mores says he was a Dutchman who founded in thiscountry, where he cut the fount of Pica Samaritan whichappears in Caslons Specimen of…
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