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in this manner, fairij commenced an abridg- ment of that colossal work, the Univertal Hilton/ : it was only carried, however, through a single Tolume. To increase the surprise which all must feel regarding these circumstances, it may be mentioned that his press was one of his own manufacture, described by his biographer, as being "wrought in the direction of a smith's bellows;" and probably, therefore, not unlike that subsequently brou^t into use by the in- genious John Ruthven. This machine, however, isallowedtohave been " but an indi fferent one :" and thus it was with almost every thing in which Tytler was concerned. Eveiy thing was wonder- fm, considering the circumstances under which it was produced ; but yet nothing was in itself very good. During his residence in the sanctu- ary, Tytler commenced a small periodical work, entitled the Weekly Sevitw, which was soon dis- continued.

1772. June. Died, John James, of Bartho- lomew Close, London, the last of the old race of letter-founders. He succeeded his father in the year 1736. His foundry consisted of the united foundries of

Rolij, the German :

Mr. Orover, the father :*

Mr. Thomas Grover, the son : amongwhose stock were the materials of Wynkyn de Worde :

Mr. Mozon :

Mr. Robert Andrews, whose foundry included Mr. Moxon's :

Mr. Silvester Andrews, his lonrt-

Mr. Head4

Mr. Robert Mitchell :§

Mr. Jacob Hive :

< John Orover, and Tboma* Orover, his son, both whom Ames, who Is exceedingly incorrect throoehoat his vroit, calls Olover. Their fonndinr-hoase was In Angel-alley, in AlderB(at»«tnet. Their lonndry is particnlarized by Mr. Mom, in p. 4S. " Mr. Orove^s foundry became, at his decease, the Joint property of Ills daughters, and was appraised and valued, in 1718, by Mr. James and Mr. Caalon. Mr. Caslon contracted for the porcltase of it; hot the daughters, thinking the foundry undervalued, n- fhsed to Join in the sale : so it remained locked up in the house of Mr, Nutt (who had married one of the daughters) for thirty years ; Mr. Nutt, in the mean time, casting Ihim the matrices for the use of his own printing-house. At longth, all tlw daughters of Mr. Orover being dead, the property centred in Mr. Nutt, of whom it was pnrcliased by Mr. John James, in 1758."

t Mr. B. Andrews lived in Chartertumse-street, and he was living in the year 1714. Silvester Andrews, his son, founded at Oxfbnl. Mr. James purchased both these fbundrtesin 1733. The following epitaph (written atOxford) was no donbt intended for Silvester Andrews : —

Underneath this stone lies honest Syl, Who died, though much against his will 1 Tet, in his fame he will snririve,^ Lesirning shall keep )>is name alive ; For he the parent was of letters, — He founded, to confound his lietters; Though what those letters should contain Did never once disturb his brain. Since, therefore, reader, he is gone, Pray let him not lie trod upon.

t Mr. Hesd's foundry was In St. Baitholomew'B.close. Whose the foundry was originally cannot be ascertained.

I Mr. Mitchell had been Journeyman to Mr. Grover, and succeeded to the foundry of Mr. Head. He removed in Jewin-street, and then lived in Cripplegate, and after- wardzln Paul's-alley, between Aldersgate and Redcross- street. HisfoundrywaspurchasedbyMr. CaslonandMr. John James, and divided between them.

and of a considerable collection besides, of whose former owners we can say nothing : the stock of man;^ artists, and the labour of many years : s multifarious collection, and such as Bever befoit was, nor hardly ever will again be, in the pos- session of a nngle person. At Mr. James's deatk Rowe Mores purchased all the curious parts of that immense collection of punches, matrices, and types, which had been accomnlating firoa the days of Wynkyn de Worde to those of Mr. James. From these a large fund of entertain- ment would probably have been given to tbe curious, if the life of Mr. Mores had been on- longed. His intentions may be judged of dob his valuable IHuertatioa on T)^>offrafiictl Founders and Founderiet ; and as no more tlaa eighty copies of that pamphlet were printed, it wul always be a typographical curiosity. Mr. John Nichols bought the whole impression at tk sale of Mr. Mores' curiosities in 1778 ; and, after subjoining a small appendix, gave it to the poUie.

1772. The exact time when the art of Vm- graphy was introduced into Madras, or Fon St George, the principal settlemeut of the Engiisi East-India company, cannot be ascertained, kot some Almanacks or CaUnd4m, so eaih[ as tUi year were executed there. In 1777 a TafanaBc version of the New Testament was printed it Madras. In 1819 the English church missioa- ary society sent out a press, which has been to- ployed on the revised Talmul version of tb holy scriptures.

1772, Jan. 21. The Scotchman. This wod commenced immediately on the decease of tic Whitperer, and took the same side in paHiks. published every Friday.

1772. The Freeholder. Thk collecdmi d political essays was published in Ireland dnriK this year. It is the production of Hugh Boyd, esi^.

1 772. Nottingham Chronicle. This fltpa wv commenced by George Burbage, and continod until the year 1775, when Mr. Cresswell, pn^ii- etor of the Journal, and Mr. Burbage, compiv. mised their political opposition, and became jool proprietors of the Journal. At the death of Ui. Cresswell,* in 1786, the Journal became dtf sole property of Mr. Burbage, and at his dest^ in 1807, of George Stretton, who had served Im apprenticeship to Mr. Burbage, and also marriBi his dau^ter. On the death of Mr. Stretton, a 1833, the Journal became the property of iobi Hicklin and Co. and is edited by tluit gentlem^ with considerable literary ability.

1772. Dec. 18. T%e York Chronicle, No.L printed and published by William Blanchard.

1773, March. Mr. Abercorn, a Gemus printer, who had been in business in Loodts. but failed, then removed to Altena, in Denmark, where he commenced printing, and began > newspaper upon the English plan. Having re- published a plain relation 01 the Copenhaga revolution, as he found it in the' English ncvt-

seller at Nottingham, where he was also sexton of St Mary's palish. Be died Aug. ss, iTSt:
 * Samuel Cresswell was many years a printer and lioek-

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