Note 209 — Chapter V · THE STATE CONTROL OF ENGLISH LETTER-FOUNDING.
Reading edition
A commission appointed to inquire into the disputes at that time agitating the Company, gave as one of its chief reasons why the monopolies should be sustained, that if anyone were to print any book he chose, this inconvenience would follow, viz., “want of provisions of good letters,” in other words, the quality both of type and printing would degenerate.