He also cut an Armenian for Whiston’s edition of _Moses Choronensis_,[469] and an Etruscan for Mr. J. Swinton of Oxford, the learned antiquary and philologist, who published his _De Linguâ Etruriæ_[470] in 1738; as well as a Gothic and several other of the foreign and learned characters. [Illustration: 63. Pica Armenian, cut by Caslon, _ante_ 1736. (From the original matrices.)] [Illustration: 65. Pica Gothic, cut by Caslon, _ante_ 1734. (From the original matrices.)] {240} [Illustration: 64. Pica Etruscan, cut by Caslon, 1738. (From the original matrices.)] [Illustration: 66. Pica Ethiopic, cut by Caslon. (From the original matrices.)] All of these, with exception of the Etruscan and an Ethiopic cut still later, were completed before 1734, in which year the first _Specimen_ of his foundry appeared. This famous broadside, of which very few copies are now extant, dates from Chiswell Street, to which address Mr. Caslon had transferred the Helmet Row Foundry (after an intermediate sojourn in Ironmonger Row), about the year 1734. The sheet is arranged in four columns, and displays altogether thirty-eight founts, namely: _Titlings._― 5-line Pica, 4-line Pica, 2-line Great Primer, 2-line English, 2-line Pica, 2-line Long Primer, 2-line Brevier. _Roman_ and _Italic._― French Canon, 2-line Great Primer, 2-line English, Double Pica, Great Primer, English, Pica, Small Pica (2), Long Primer (2), Brevier, Nonpareil, and Pearl. _Saxon._― Pica and Long Primer. _Black._― Pica and Brevier. _Gothic_, _Coptic_, _Armenian_, _Samaritan_.― Pica of each. _Syriac_ and _Arabic_.― English of each. _Hebrew._― English, English with points, Brevier. _Greek._― English, Pica, Long Primer, Brevier. _Flowers._― Seven designs. Of these, all, with three exceptions, are Caslon’s own handiwork, and represent the untiring industry of fourteen years. Of the excellence of the performance it is sufficient to say that the Specimen placed Caslon absolutely without rival at the head of his profession; “and,” as Nichols says, “for clearness and uniformity, for the use of the reader and student, it is doubtful whether it has been exceeded by any subsequent production.” The three founts referred to as not the product of Caslon’s hand, were the Canon Roman, from Andrews’ foundry, formerly Moxon’s, and exhibited in the {241} _Mechanick Exercises_[471]; the English Syriac, which is from the matrices of the _Polyglot_[472]; and the Pica Samaritan, which was cut by a Dutchman named Dummers.