Note 458 — Chapter XI · WILLIAM CASLON, 1720.

Dibdin, in repeating this anecdote, uses rather stronger language. “Caslon,” he says, “after giving (I would hope) that wretched pilferer and driveller Samuel Palmer (whose History of Printing is only fit for chincampane paper) half a dozen good canings for his dishonesty, betook himself to Mr. Bowyer.” (Bibl. Decam. II., 379.)