Figure 276
Broadside Specimen of Isaac Moore and Co., Bristol
From Providence Public Library Special Collections (archived scan)
1766
The owners of the Fry type-foundry at Bristol were intelligent, painstaking men, and its output stood very high in its day. Joseph Fry and William Pine, a Bristol printer, started the establishment in 1764, under the style of Fry & Pine. Fry—a typographic Vicar of Bray—was much influenced by other people’s work; and at first, under the direction of Isaac Moore, a type-founder who was made partner, this foundry produced letters modelled on Baskerville’s. The very rare specimen-sheet of Isaac Moore & Co., Bristol, shows their output in 1766.