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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. Walter, Printing-House Square, Blackfriars." The work,
which makes in all not much short of 4000 pages, is very well printed in
all respects; and the following interesting note on the subject of
Logographic Printing is attached to the preface heading the
Continuation, or fourth volume.

"Mr. Walter cannot here omit suggesting to the Public a few observations
on his improved mode of printing LOGOGRAPHICALLY. In all projects for
the general benefit, the individual who conceives that the trade in
which he is engaged diminishes in its emoluments from any improvement
which another may produce in it, is too much disposed to become its