A HISTORY OF THE OLD ENGLISH LETTER FOUNDRIES
Written by Talbot Baines Reed, A.F. Johnson
Published by Faber & Faber Limited
in 1952
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A HISTORY OF THE OLD ENGLISH LETTER FOUNDRIES
Written by Talbot Baines Reed, A.F. Johnson.
Stock no. 1830032
2nd.
1952.
Hardback.
Large format.
Very good condition.
With Notes Historical and Bibliographical on the Rise and Progress of English Typography. New Edition revised and enlarged by A.F. Johnson. Large format. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Folding pictorial b/w frontis showing a 'true and exact representation of the Art of Crafting and Preparing Letters for Printing'. B/w illustrations. xiv and 400 pages including index. Small stain to lower edge of rear board and splash mark to lower edge of text block. A few minor scuff marks to boards. Endpapers browned. A few minor margin marks to contents but generally a nice, clean copy.
Front cover
Contents
- Introductory Chapter. The types and typefounding of the first printers
- 1. The English type-bodies and faces
- 2. The learned, foreign, and peculiar characters
- 3. The printer letter-founders, from Caxton to day
- 4. Letter-founding as an English mechanical trade
- 5. The state control of English letter-founding
- 6. The Oxford University Foundry
- 7. The star chamber founders and the London polyglot
- 8. Joseph Moxon
- 9. The later founders of the seventeenth century
- 10. Thomas and John James
- 11. William Caslon
- 12. Alexander Wilson
- 13. John Baskerville
- 14. Thomas Cottrell, Robert Thorne, the Fann Street Foundry
- 15. Joseph and Edmund Fry
- 16. Joseph Jackson, William Caslon III and IV, Stephenson, Blake & Co.
- 17. William Martin
- 18. Vincent Figgins
- 19. The minor founders of the eighteenth century
- 20. William Miller
- 21. The minor founders from 1800 to 1830
- 22. The typefounders and mechanical inventions
- 23. Further minor founders, 1831-90