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of Hitchin
Typefounders.
1823 Announcement: 'On Sunday next THE NEWS will be printed on an entire new Fount of Type, cast for the express purpose, at the foundry of Messrs. BESSEMER and CATHERWOOD, Hitchin, Herts.'[1]
1826 Partnership dissolved: Anthony Bessemer, John James Catherwood, and William Imeson, Charlton. near Hitchin, Herts, letter-founders, so far as regards Williams Imeson.[2]
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