Figure 330
Types used in Freylinghausen’s Doctrine of the Christian Religion: Stereotype Office, London
1804
…a somewhat dreary book…in two hundred and sixteen pages—quite a feat when one stops to think about it! This excellent work was edited to conform to the doctrines of the Church of England, and, the Preface says,
stood so high in the good opinions of the Greatest Female Personage in this Kingdom, that it was translated into English for the use of her illustrious daughters
—the “Female Personage” being no other than Queen Charlotte. This book was the first volume stereotyped by Earl Stanhope’s process, and is interesting on that account. The standard rules of the Stereotype Office…throws a certain light on the innocuous rôle which the Stereotype Office proposed for itself, and also shows that they thought the book printed from good types—it being the first of their publications. These types are not old style at all. They are what we now term modern face, and the book is mentioned because it shows an early use (1804) of this type-form.