A History of the Old English Letter Foundries: with Notes, Historical and Bibliographical, on the Rise and Progress of English Typography.Reed, Talbot Baines
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A History of the Old English Letter Foundries: with Notes, Historical and Bibliographical, on the Rise and Progress of English Typography.
Reed, Talbot Baines
Printing -- England -- History; Type and type-founding -- England -- History
Rowe Mores seizes the opportunity afforded by this enumeration for
another sneer at Caslon II. “This is the best account,” he says, “we
can give of this capital and beautiful foundery, the possessor of which
refused to answer the natural questions, because, forsooth, ‘answering
would be of no advantage to us; if we wanted letter to be cast, he
would cast it.’ But this we can do ourselves.”[493]
The summary is as follows:―
“MR. CASLON’S FOUNDERY.
ORIENTALS.
_Hebrew._―
2-line English. [Caslon I]
Double Pica. [Caslon II]
Great Primer. [Caslon II]
English. [Caslon I]
English open.[494] [Caslon I]
Pica. [Caslon II]
Long Primer.[495] [Caslon II]
Brevier. [Caslon II]
2-line Great Primer. [Caslon II]
_Samaritan._―
Pica. [Dummers]
_Syriac._―
English. [Polyglot]
_Arabic._―
English. [Caslon I]
_Armenian._―
Pica. [Caslon I]
MERIDIONALS.
_Coptic._―
Pica. [Caslon I]
_Ethiopic._―
Pica. [Caslon I]
OCCIDENTALS.
_Greek._―
Double Pica. [Caslon II]
Great Primer. [Caslon II]
English.[496] [Caslon II]
Pica.[497] [Head]-[Mitchell]
Long Primer. [Caslon I]
Brevier. [Caslon I]
Small Pica. [Caslon II]
Nonpareil. [Caslon II]
_Etruscan._―
English. [Caslon I]
_Roman and Italic._―
All the regulars.
_Irregulars and Titlings._―
5-line. [Caslon I]
4-line.[496] [Caslon I]
Canon. [Moxon]-[Andrews]
2-line Double Pica. [Caslon II]
2-line Great Primer.[496] [Caslon I]
2-line English.[496] [Caslon I]
2-line Pica full-face. [Mitchell] {248}
_Irregulars and Titlings._―
2-line Pica. [Caslon II]
Paragon. [Caslon II]
Small Pica. [Caslon II]
Bourgeois. [Caslon II]
Minion. [Caslon II]
Nonpareil. [Caslon II]
Pearl.[498] [Caslon II]
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