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that the foundry had also won a reputation for extremely small-size type for uses such as a French dictionary. As a specimen of this it issued a printing of Gray's Elegy, a poem of around 130 lines, in two columns with each column reduced to 3.75 inches in height.
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The firm's work entered a decline with the arrival in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century of
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One of the most notable sets of designs of the foundry was a "modernised old face" known as
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The Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland: Professionalism and diversity 1880-2000
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wrote of it dating from around 1844 in 1887, but other sources suggest much later -
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Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland, Volume 3: Ambition and Industry 1800-1880
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A specimen newspaper printed using Miller & Richard typefaces.
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is an extremely distant descendant of this style.) Its
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Index


type foundry
Edinburgh
metal type
William Miller
Alexander Wilson
Old Style
old-style serif
Caslon
Bookman Old Style
"Modern Face"
punchcutters
Alexander Phemister
Talbot Baines Reed
hot metal typesetting
Monotype
James Mosley
Stephenson, Blake & Co. Ltd., Sheffield
"Typefounding"
"Miller & Richard"


Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland, Volume 3: Ambition and Industry 1800-1880
ISBN
978-0-7486-2881-0



Glen, Duncan
"Designs of the Best Type"

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