A specimen of printing types.
Published: 1783
Place of publication: Glasgow
Language: eng
Subjects: Type and type-founding -- Scotland -- Specimens.
Genres: Specimens.
Notes: Printed in four columns.
"The above are some of the sizes cast in the letter foundery of Dr. Alex. Wilson and sons. Glasgow, 1783."
This "specimen in broadside form ... illustrated an article on printing in Chambers' Cyclopaedia". cf. D. B. Updike, Printing types, v. 2, p. 117.
"The binder is desired to place this broadside in the middle of the sheet 13 A, vol. III, facing article Printing, method of."--Foot-note.