page_title: Chase (printing)
hierarchical_section_title: Chase (printing)
caption_attribution_description: Printing form set in chase. Form is the New Testament in Scots. Chase is Miller &amp; Richard. Accession Number: SH.2009.323 Miller &amp; Richard were a world famous Edinburgh type foundry. The firm supplied type to print firms all over the globe. The company was established by William Miller, who had trained at Alexander Wilson?s foundry in Glasgow. In 1809 he began operations out of Reikies Court, just off Nicolson Street. It expanded to take in the surrounding buildings including a chapel, a school, a lying-in hospital and finally a street was roofed over to make a woodworking shop. By 1825 the company was type founders for His Majesty of Scotland and when he was joined by his son-in-law Walter Richard in 1838 the firm became Miller &amp; Richard. Miller &amp; Richard founded a strong reputation of typographic innovation. They were responsible for founts such as the Miller &amp; Richard Oldstyle and its boldface, now known as Old Style or Century Oldstyle; and Antique Old Style, or Bookman. The foundry closed in 1952, when the designs passed to the English company Stephenson Blake. This item is on display at the People's Story Museum, The Canongate, Edinburgh. Edinburgh City of Print is a joint project between City of Edinburgh Museums and the Scottish Archive of Print and Publishing History Records (SAPPHIRE). The project aims to catalogue and make accessible the wealth of printing collections held by City of Edinburgh Museums. For more information about the project please visit www.edinburghcityofprint.org
context_page_description: A chase is a heavy steel frame used to hold type in a letterpress. Most of the space in the chase not occupied with type is filled with blocks of wood called furniture. The type and furniture are locked in place by quoins. When a chase is locked up with type, furniture, and quoins, it is called a forme.
context_section_description: A chase is a heavy steel frame used to hold type in a letterpress. Most of the space in the chase not occupied with type is filled with blocks of wood called furniture. The type and furniture are locked in place by quoins.  When a chase is locked up with type, furniture, and quoins, it is called a forme.
caption: A single-page "forme" for printing the front page of the New Testament of the Christian Bible. The black frame surrounding it is the "'chase"', and the two objects each on the bottom and left side are the "quoins".
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