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 406
Printing Type, Edinburgh, 1833. 4to. (Ox. Univ. Pr.) 1 A specimen of this type the smallest ever manufactured in this country, was exhibited,and contains the whole of Grays Elegy in 32 verses, in 2 columns, measuring 3^ inches eachin depth. 2 Dictionary for the Pocket; French and English; English… … G. W. BOWER, circ. 1810. HIS foundry was begun in Sheffield about the beginning ofthe present century. In 1810, Mr. Bower issued a pricelist below those of the London founders, whose founts hesucceeded occasionally in underselling. Hansard men-tions the foundry in 1824, under the style of Bower,…
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