Alphabets to Order: The Literature of Nineteenth-Century Typefounders' Specimens Book

	Acknowledgments	vi
	List of illustrations	vii
	Illustration credits	viii
	Introduction	1
Chapter 1	'How long, O Catiline'	13
Chapter 2	'Pan-religious paternosters'	17
Chapter 3	'Guard the mysteries'	25
Chapter 4	'Typographical surloin'	47
Chapter 5	'Saving face'	61
Chapter 6	'Hermit domain'	73
Chapter 7	'Beardron & the Homer-houris'	91
Chapter 8	'Monsieur Noodle's peeps'	99
Chapter 9	'Concrete evidence'	111
Chapter 10	'Most artistic printers'	127
Chapter 11	'Typographical tourism'	143
Chapter 12	'The Fellowship of Bohemian Scribes'	161
Appendix A	The lineage of British typefounders	186
Appendix B	The lineage of American typefounders	190
Appendix C	Type specimens consulted	194
Appendix D	Periodicals	198
	Names & sizes of types	199
	Glossary	200
	Bibliography	201
	Index	207