Timperley, Charles H.
Encyclopaedia of literary and typographical anecdote ⁄ C.H. Timperley ; with a new introduction ⁄ by Terry Belanger ; in two volumes
New York and London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1977
1828, Oct 29. Died, Luke Hansard, a very eminent printer and excellent man.... [Son of Thomas C.] [p.905]
1828, Nov. 8. Died, Thomas Bewick, the celebrated engraver on wood.... [p.906]
1828, Nov. 28. Died, Miller [sic] Ritchie, who was justly considered the father of English fine printing, aged seventy-seven years. Baskerville succeeded in producing a type of superior elegance, and an ink which gave peculiar lustre to impressions from his type. The novel and unusual excellence which his works presented gave stimulus the the exertions, and drew forth the emulations of many of our countrymen. The first who started in this novel course was Mr. Miller Richie, a native of Scotland. About 1785 he carried on business in Albion-buildings, Bartholomew Close. An edition of the classics in royal octavo, consisting of the works of Sallust, Pliny, Tacitus, Q. Curtius, Caesar, and Livy, was the work upon which this leading attempt of superior printing was made, at the expense of the rev. Mr. Homer, senior fellow of Magdalen college, Cambridge, who subsequently disposed of the whole impression (excepting those reserved for presents) to the bookseller, Mr. Thomas Payne