Notes & Queries Archive
REPLY1850

LOGOGRAPHIC PRINTING

By C. (Old Brompton)

[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…

Topics: Logographic Printing, History of Commerce, Literature

Locations: Printing-House Square, Blackfriars, Piccadilly, Old Bond Street