Volume 182402

Typographia: or the printers' instructor, including an account of the origin of printing. With biographical notices of the printers of England, from Caxton to the close of the sixteenth century: a series of ancient and modern alphabets, and Domesday characters: together with an elucidation of every subject connected with the art / By J. Johnson, printer.

  • John Johnson
Date:
1824
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Credit: Typographia: or the printers' instructor, including an account of the origin of printing. With biographical notices of the printers of England, from Caxton to the close of the sixteenth century: a series of ancient and modern alphabets, and Domesday characters: together with an elucidation of every subject connected with the art / By J. Johnson, printer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Small Pica; between Long Primer and: Breyierr Burgeois; and between Brevier and Nonpareill Minion. Of Paragon it may be further remarkedd that it was cast to be the intermediate letter betweert [real] Double Pica and Great Primer, till: Smal Pica coming in, the real Double Pica (as we before: observed) was reduced to a two-line letter of Small Pica; and real Double Pica, or Two-lines Pica, sub> stituted by a new letter, cut on purpose. For tho rest, Paragon is a letter not met with in many printi _ ing houses neither abroad nor here, where it haa: lately been introduced, and has now a place among: the other beauties in our type-founder’s specimens... What Irregular-bodied letter is‘particularly tdo be admired for is, that each has been cut here purr. posely for their respective bodies ; whereas in Francee their La Philosophie, or Small Pica, is cast in thee identical matrices of Cicero, or Pica ; their Gaillardes. or Burgeois, in those of Long Primer, and thei) Mignone, or Minion, in the same as Brevier: so tha! the cutting of Punches for three sorts of regulan bodied letter, serves there for as many of irregulan body.* SRA TE Te eee * A saving way, similar to this, was attempted by M. Jallesons, who was a letter founder, from Germany, and lived in the Old Bai: ley, where he printed the greatest part of an Hebrew Bible, with let» ter of his own casting; but was, by adverse fortune, obliged to finish! it in Holland.. tle, from three sets of punches, proposed to cast sims different bodies of letter, viz. Brevier and Long Primer from one set; Pica and English from another ; and Great Primer aud Doublc: Pica from a third, Accordingly, he charged his Brevier, Pica, ancx Great Primer, with as full a face as their respective bodies woula: admit of; and in order to make some alterations in the advancing founts, he designed to cut the ascending and descending letters tu: such a Jength as should shew the exteut of their different bodies = But though he had cast founts of the three minor sorts of letter, hee did not bring the rest to perfection here,