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Dr. Leo, in his _Angelsachsiche Sprachproben_, has reprinted the
_Colloquy_, but without the Latin, and, among many other capricious
deviations from Mr. Thorpe's text, in the answer of the shoewright has
printed _hygefata_! but does not notice the word in his _Glossary_. Herr
Leo has entirely omitted the word _sprote_.
S.W. SINGER.
Jan. 14. 1850.
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LOGOGRAPHIC PRINTING.
[NASO has, in compliance with our request, furnished us with a
facsimile of the heading of his early number of _The Times_, which
is as follows:--"THE (here an engraving of the King's Arms) TIMES,
OR DAILY UNIVERSAL REGISTER, PRINTED LOGOGRAPHICALLY, WEDNESDAY,
MARCH 12. 1788," and informs us that it was printed "By R. Nutkins,
at the Logographic Press, Printing-House Square, near Apothecaries'
Hall, Blackfriars," and the height to which the Mr. Walter of that
day had brought his invention, by the same energy by which his
successor has raised THE TIMES to its present position, is shown by
the following note from a kind and most able correspondent.]
A much more remarkable specimen of Logographic Printing than the number
of the _Times_ newspaper mentioned by NASO, No. 9., p. 136., is an
edition of Anderson's _History of Commerce_, with a continuation, in 4
vols. 4to., printed by that method in 1787-1789, "at the Logographic
Press, by J.
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