Note 419 — Chapter X · THOMAS AND JOHN JAMES, 1710.
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The Oxford University foundry must, of course, be included as a fourth foundry existing at this time, but does not rank as a trading establishment. Cottrell’s foundry was also started in 1757, but it is doubtful whether he had yet finished cutting his punches. Smith, in The Printer’s Grammar, 1755, in comparing the standard bodies in use at that time in England, names Caslon and James as the only English founders.