twentieth century. Later life Fry was one of the most learned of the English typefounders, but retired with little. He was a member of the Company of Stationers. He died at Dalby Terrace, City Road, London, at the age of eighty-one, on 22 December 1835. Works In 1798 he circulated a 'Prospectus' of the major work on which he had been occupied for sixteen years, published as Pantographia, containing accurate Copies of all the known Alphabets of the World, together with an English explanation of the peculiar Force and Power of each Letter, to which are added Specimens of all well-authenticated Oral Languages, forming a Comprehensive Digest of Phonology, 1799. The volume contains more than two hundred alphabets, including eighteen varieties of the Chaldee and thirty-two of the Greek. Many of the characters were expressly cut by Fry for his book. Fry cut several founts of oriental types for the university of Cambridge, the British and Foreign Bible Society, and other bodies. In 1833 twenty designs for raised type for the blind were submitted to the Royal Scottish Society of Arts, who had offered a prize for the best example. Among them was one from Fry, to whom the gold medal was awarded a couple of years after his death. Family He was married twice: first to Jenny, daughter of Nicholas Windover, of Stockbridge, Hampshire, of whose issue one son only survived, Windover Fry (1797–1835); secondly to Ann Hancock, by whom he had a son, Arthur (1809–78). A portrait of Fry, painted by Frédérique Boileau, was shown at the Caxton Exhibition in 1877. A silhouette has been reproduced by Reed and Fry. References Attribution 1754 births 1835 deaths Businesspeople from Bristol Alumni of the University of Edinburgh English typographers and type designers Edmund