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A History of the Old English Letter Foundries

Note 211 — Chapter V · THE STATE CONTROL OF ENGLISH LETTER-FOUNDING.

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A return of presses and printers made in the same year to the Master and Wardens of the Company after the publication of the decree, shows that this provision had reduced the number to twenty-five printers, with fifty-three presses. A list of these is given in Mr. C. R. Rivington’s Records of the Company of Stationers (London, 1883, 8vo), p. 28.

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