Note 195 — Chapter IV · LETTER-FOUNDING AS AN ENGLISH MECHANICAL TRADE. 1477–1830.

This misguided reformer lived at Banbury, where, in 1804, he printed an edition of Rasselas, 8vo, in his “improved” types. The result is more curious than beautiful, and the public remained loyal still to the alphabets of Aldus, Elzevir, Caslon, Baskerville, and Bodoni. Nevertheless, Rusher’s edition of Rasselas, “printed with patent types in a manner never before attempted,” will always claim a place among typographical curiosities.