typefounder

So early as 1768 Benjamin Franklin had published his “Scheme for a New Alphabet and a Reformed Mode of Spelling, with Remarks and Examples Concerning the Same, and an Enquiry into its Uses” and induced a Philadelphia typefounder to cut type for it, but this scheme was too extravagant to be adopted anywhere, or to have any appreciable influence upon spelling.

Chapter 8. American Spelling. 2. The Influence of Webster Henry Louis 1921

He partly advanced himself and partly induced Balzac's parents to advance more, in order to start the young man as a printer, to which business Honore himself added that of typefounder.

The Human Comedy: Introductions and Appendix Honor�� de Balzac 1824

Pica is not only more or less that of Caslon in London, but as can be seen from this table it is close to the Cicéro of the contemporary typefounder Sanlecque in Paris.

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Perhaps their impression on the highly-calendared paper is a little pallid, but the comfortingly familiar, old-fashioned shapes and the clarity of outline and the quality of their casting do honour both to the punchcutter and to the typefounder.

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M. Vaflard is an honest man, who uses hard metal; and, to my way of thinking, the best typefounder is the one you go to most seldom.”

Two Poets 2007

M. Vaflard is an honest man, who uses hard metal; and, to my way of thinking, the best typefounder is the one you go to most seldom.”

Two Poets 2007

_Bibliography of Printing, London, 1880-86_, vol. 1, p. 201, described it as dealing with “certain improvements in printing-types made by Jackson, the typefounder.”]

John Baptist Jackson 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut Jacob Kainen

Old man Chapman's a pretty good typefounder, you have to hand it to him. "

The Haunted Bookshop 1918

M. Vaflard is an honest man, who uses hard metal; and, to my way of thinking, the best typefounder is the one you go to most seldom. "

Two Poets Honor�� de Balzac 1824

M. Vaflard is an honest man, who uses hard metal; and, to my way of thinking, the best typefounder is the one you go to most seldom. "

Lost Illusions Honor�� de Balzac 1824