Moxon, Joseph
Other Business Names:
- Sugar, John
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- London, Greater London, Greater London, Greater London, England
Sectors:
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Publishing & printing
Map & chart engraving, printing & publishing
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Precision instruments production
Measuring inc navigational equipment production
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Publishing & printing
Other printing
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Fabricated metal products manufacture
Typefounding
Notes:
Joseph Moxon, 1627-91, established in London in mid 17th century as a printer of Puritan tracts. Later specialised in maps and charts and made celestial and terrestrial globes by 1652 when in partnership with John Sugar. 1662 Hydrographer to the King. Also maker of paper-based mathematical instruments and was a typefounder
Publications:
- 'Joseph Moxon' in T B Reed & A F Johnson, History of the Old English Letter Foundries; with notes, historical and bibliographical, on the rise and fall of English typography. A new edition revised and enlarged by A F Johnson by Reed, Talbot B, & Alfred F Johnson
- Some Aspects of Seventeenth Century English Printing with Special Reference to Joseph Moxon by Bliss, C S
Groups:
Other Business Names:
- Sugar, John
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- London, Greater London, Greater London, Greater London, England
Sectors:
- Publishing & printing Map & chart engraving, printing & publishing
- Precision instruments production Measuring inc navigational equipment production
- Publishing & printing Other printing
- Fabricated metal products manufacture Typefounding
Notes:
Joseph Moxon, 1627-91, established in London in mid 17th century as a printer of Puritan tracts. Later specialised in maps and charts and made celestial and terrestrial globes by 1652 when in partnership with John Sugar. 1662 Hydrographer to the King. Also maker of paper-based mathematical instruments and was a typefounderPublications:
- 'Joseph Moxon' in T B Reed & A F Johnson, History of the Old English Letter Foundries; with notes, historical and bibliographical, on the rise and fall of English typography. A new edition revised and enlarged by A F Johnson by Reed, Talbot B, & Alfred F Johnson
- Some Aspects of Seventeenth Century English Printing with Special Reference to Joseph Moxon by Bliss, C S