A History of the Old English Letter
                        
                     
                                                         
                
                    A History of the Old English Letter
                                            
                            By Talbot Baines Reed
                            
                                29 Aug, 2019                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                        The Art of Letter Founding hesitated long before yielding to the revolutionary impulses of modern progress. While kindred arts - and notably that art which preserves all others were advancing by leaps and bounds, the founder, as late as half a centur
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                                                The Art of Letter Founding hesitated long before yielding to the revolutionary impulses of modern progress. While kindred arts - and notably that art which preserves all others were advancing by leaps and bounds, the founder, as late as half a century ago, was pursuing the even tenor of his ways by paths which had been trodden by De Worde and Day and Moxon. But the inevitable revolution came, and Letter Founding to-day bids fair to break all her old ties and take new departures undreamed of by those heroes of the punch and matrix and mold who made her what we found her. Less