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17 types! As a proof how our foreign types are sought after and made use of in England -— though there is such an abundance in alphabets there – we may mention the circumstance that in the year 1851 we furnished, according to the preface which we here quote verbatim, we furnished the famous booksellers Bagster and Sons of London with the types to enable them to accomplish a scientific work ).

We now come to Sennefelder's splendid invention – Lithography, or rather chemical printing, which makes us acquainted with the stone in its wonderful application. If the stone is written upon with greasy ink, or if a paper covered with such a fluid is impressed on it, we obtain a perfect autograph. Every figurative representation may be obtained in the same manner. The greatest artists have already got hold of the stone, and have confided the creations of their mind to this material, either in common print – by means of the pen, chalk or pin – or by means of colour printing, like oil- paintings.

At first lithography was mostly applied to the printing of official and commercial objects, and autograpby or the reprinting of written pages formed the greater part of thc ordinary work. •, `a n • al, a e nina S ¤r•a,n lan ag endwgdqet Z3? Lge: tgxzltgza hazi xo? unfair: ?•·‘it1:£;§:i::; tgM:::§u that: cgsghangeraz and •tb¤ plain! na. (Dedicated by permission to his Gnra a Arvhhiahor of Canterbury.) London: Sfizater and gms, 15, Patornoater mw: warrhonae for Bibles, New 'aatananta, Pray•r· Boch, Luieonr, Grannara, Concordances, and Paaltara, ln ancient and modern Ianguagoa. ‘ Aftar Spacinaen diana of the difcrcnt Vsnicna of tha Srripturu had been toured and prepared for thia Wax it a and dnairahh, in order to {amish every available ai: tawarda tha examination and com ariaon omue Sperimena. to provide if poaatblo a aeriea nf Native Alphabets. But here aaarioua dirlcnlt preaaatrd ine}!. Many nf the characters in which the Specimens are given an little known ann to tie learned in Europe, and aroma of than have never before perhaps a paarad in print in thia country. There ia therefore no work tn which the student can refer, if he vwnltaa to ascertain the relative value of the widely-·•liI¢ri¤g Alphabets in which than Specimens are printed. Every alert was nada to procnu a complete series; but aa it was found that very many Avhabet; {amid not be cbtaimd, the dcaiga nl applying the comparative Tables was about to M rc cia c. lt Laing huwavar well known ta pbtloiogiats that in the Imperial Printing-other at Vienna than uiata an un walled collection of {ani n t pcs. farmed by tha slut! and nndring diligenre of the hu~ pedal Commiaaionor, M. Alain Aner, tga ixabtiahera ventured to rc resent to the lm ria! Government the dimeulty experienced in anrlching the ,,BIblc of avery Land" turing the noreaaary Argfhaheta, and soli- citad pcrniaaion to purchase from the Imperial Pri¤ting·cf8¢• the Alphabets not procarabla in England. Thia appeal was immediately responded ta; and with {rent llberality, Bia Majesty the En- yeror at ance directed a cnnpiete series of the Alphabets of at tha types and throughout the work, togethzr wit: th• powers of each latter, to b• preparul and forwardod fno •f coat for tha no of thc Ill I WO . The xlphabota, therefore, which tha Pahlialnere have the satisfaction to laelada ln their work, an- Erintod from types cnt and prepared ln th• Imperial Printing-office at Vienna, and pnacntod by the npsror of Austria an a contribution to thc complatimral the ,.Bihl• nf awry bandr