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Excerpt from European Recollections: An Address Delivered Before the New York Typographical Society, on Franklin's Birthday, January 17, 1861
And here I may as well say a few words respect ing printing as practiced in London. I had letters of introduction to several of the leading printers, and was furnished with every facility to examine their establishments and nowhere did I feel so completely at home, and in nothing did I feel so much interest, as when passing through these houses of the type and press.
One of the largest establishments in London is that of Clowes Sons. About four hundred hands are employed here, and some idea of the extent of their establishment may be inferred from the fact that the proprietors have a type foundry upon their own premises, for casting type exclusively for themselves. This house has been established for more than half a century, and possesses at present, I should judge, considerable of the original stock of sticks, cases, and stands of its founder. And this old look applies to many of the English and French offices. I think they are not as fortunate as we are in their number of fires, and seem never to move from place to place.
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