Coming to London, he started in business at the Hand and Pen in Fetter Lane.
An enlarged edition, entitled Calligraphotechnica, was published in 1619: it had twenty-six engraved quarto plates and a frontispiece portrait of Gething, and was dedicated to Sir Francis Bacon.
Another edition of Chirographia, probably published after his death, is entitled Gething Redivivus, or the Pen's Master-Piece.
Being the last work of that eminent and accomplished master in this art, containing exemplars of all curious hands written (London, 1664).
[2] William Massey considered that "on account of his early productions from the rolling press, he may stand in comparison with Bales, Davies, and Billingsley, those heads and fathers, as I may call them, of our English calligraphic tribe".