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Scotch Roman

Scotch Roman

William Miller, A specimen of printing types. Edinburgh, 1822 In his Typographia , 1825, p. William Miller, A specimen of printing types. Edinburgh, 1822 In his Typographia, 1825, p. 361, T. C. Hansard wrote that the English punchcutter Richard... 

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Richard Austin’s Address to Printers, 1819

Richard Austin’s Address to Printers, 1819

The English punchcutter and typefounder Richard Austin is the subject of the second Justin Howes lecture by Alastair Johnston at the St Bride Institute on 20 February 2007. This is the preface to Austin’s type specimen of 1819, in which he set out... 

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