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And then, when everything was in confusion — debtors recalcitrant and creditors pressing — what must he do but launch on another venture, buy the bankrupt stock of a type-founder, and start manufacturing.

Balzac 2003

I was the son of a printer and type-founder, so we had

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They ceased for a time, not because of the author's conviction of their badness (though he entertained no serious delusions on this subject), nor because they failed of a certain success in actual money return, but because he had taken to the earliest, the most prolonged, and the most disastrous of his dabblings in business -- this time as a publisher to some extent and still more as a printer and type-founder.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various

And then, when everything was in confusion -- debtors recalcitrant and creditors pressing -- what must he do but launch on another venture, buy the bankrupt stock of a type-founder, and start manufacturing.

Balzac Frederick Lawton

The first truth appears by sanitary statistics, which prove that the health of such artisans as the type-founder and such craftsmen as the printer has been materially improved by the introduction of mechanical aids to their toil.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864 Various

Anyhow, from 1825 to 1828, the future author of the _Comédie humaine_ was a publisher, printer and type-founder; and in the last year he had to abscond, or something like it, under pressure of debts which were never fully settled till 1838, and then by a further obligation of ninety thousand francs, chiefly furnished by his mother and never repaid to her.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various

One of these is the composing machine, or keyboard, the other the caster, or type-founder.

The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing Various

The prospect of making a living by his pen remaining dark, he went into business in 1825 as a publisher, printer, and type-founder; but all he seems to have gained from this enterprise was a large debt, which burdened him ever after, some experience of life, and a knowledge of the details of business, of which he availed himself in his later writings.

Biographical Note 1917

The first deputy of the Italian Socialist Party (which at that time consisted exclusively of manual workers), Antonio Maffi, a type-founder, elected to parliament in 1882, speedily joined one of the bourgeois sections of the left, declaring that his election as a working man did not make it necessary for him to set himself in opposition to the other classes of society.

Political Parties; a Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy 1916

Being an engraver Sweynheim was probably the die-cutter, the type-founder, and the type-setter of the undertaking, while Pannartz had charge of the actual printing and of matters connected with it.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913