A history of the old English letter foundries, with notes, historical and bibliographical, on the rise and progress of English typography
A history of English type founding and printing, written by Talbot Baines Reed and published in London by E. Stock in 1887, aimed at printers, typographers and readers of printing history. Its pictures are decorative initial letters in black-and-white woodcut style, a Oxford University Press printer's woodcut border, and a framed engraved portrait of a type founder, giving designers examples of historic initials, ornament and portrait framing.
