Note 364 — Chapter VIII · JOSEPH MOXON, 1659.

Dissertation, p. 33. It is worthy of note that at the date when Mores wrote an almost universal cessation in Irish printing was taking place at home and abroad. At Louvain no work had appeared since 1663, at Rome since 1707, or at Paris (with the exception of the specimen in Fournier’s Manuale Typographique, 1764), since 1742. In the few Irish works issued at home during this period (with the notable exception of Miss Brooke’s Reliques of Irish Poetry, printed by Bonham of Dublin in 1789, in a new fount, apparently privately cut) the Irish character is generally rendered in copperplate, or in Roman type. It was not till Marcel published his Alphabet Irlandais, at Paris in 1804, and Neilson his Irish Grammar, at Dublin in 1808, that a revival of Irish typography took place, both abroad and at home.