typefounders

A website about the development, shape and use of typefounders' moulds.

Handmoulds tellurian 2006

A website about the development, shape and use of typefounders' moulds.

Archive 2006-10-01 tellurian 2006

The atmosphere is one of typefounders, leather, hides, and oyster houses.

Walking-Stick Papers Robert Cortes Holliday

It would seem as though he was the first scientist who discussed this subject, and there is even some question of whether printers and typefounders did not derive their ideas in this matter from our chemist.

Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages James Joseph Walsh 1903

The newly incorporated company included nearly all the men connected with the book trade, not only printers, but booksellers, bookbinders, and typefounders.

A Short History of English Printing, 1476-1898 Henry R. Plomer 1901

The Company were to have the right of search, and four typefounders, John Grismand, Thomas Wright, Arthur Nichols, and

A Short History of English Printing, 1476-1898 Henry R. Plomer 1901

Some of the Dutch typefounders refused to sell him types on any terms, and it was only by getting hold of a man who was more fond of his liquor than his trade, that James was able to get matrices, for even this individual refused to sell his punches.

A Short History of English Printing, 1476-1898 Henry R. Plomer 1901

The whole work occupied six folio volumes, measuring 16 x 10-3/4, and was printed by Thomas Roycroft from types supplied by the four recognised typefounders.

A Short History of English Printing, 1476-1898 Henry R. Plomer 1901

Fry and Figgins, the London typefounders, would not produce under £700 half the Nagari fount which the Serampore native turned out at about

Life of William Carey George Smith 1876

The bland 'old style 'type was quickly copied by other typefounders, including H. W. Caslon & Co., and it became a generic typeface that was widely used by English-speaking publishers for literary texts, the' modern face 'being kept for works of information.

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