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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. cover

A History of the Old English Letter Foundries / with Notes, Historical and Bibliographical, on the Rise and Progress of English Typography.

Chapter 86: LIST OF SPECIMENS OF THE CASLON FOUNDRY, 1734–1830
By Talbot Baines Reed
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A detailed historical and bibliographical account of English letter founding that traces the technical processes, the origins and evolution of typefaces, and the workshops and institutions that produced them. It combines practical descriptions of casting and moulding with critical examination of early printing practices, type bodies, and face designs, and offers biographical and chronological treatment of individual foundries. The work supplements narrative chapters with specimen listings, bibliographies, and archival research, evaluates earlier scholarship, and presents documentary discoveries intended to support typographical study and the preservation of the craft’s material legacy.

LIST OF SPECIMENS OF THE CASLON FOUNDRY, 1734–1830.

  • 1734. A Specimen by William Caslon, Letter-founder in Chiswell Street, London. 1734. Large post broadside. (Caslon.)

  • 1738. A Specimen by William Caslon, Letter-founder in Chiswell Street, London. Large post broadside. (Chambers’ Cycl., 1738.)

  • 1742. A Specimen by Caslon and Son, (referred to by Nichols, Lit. Anec., ii, 365). (Lost.)

  • 1748. A Specimen by Caslon and Son (referred to by Nichols, Lit. Anec., ii, 721). (Lost.)

  • 1749. A Specimen by William Caslon and Son, Letter-founders in Chiswell Street, London. 1749. Large Broadside. (Sohmian Coll., Stockholm.)

  • 1749. A Specimen of Mr. Caslon’s Roman Letter, and the names of the sizes now in use. (Ames’ Typ. Antiq., p. 571.)

  • 1763. A Specimen of Printing Types by William Caslon and Son. Printed by Dryden Leach, London, 1763, 8vo. (Amer. Antiq. Soc.)

  • 1764. A Specimen of Printing Types by William Caslon and Son. Printed by Dryden Leach. London, 1764. 4to and 8vo. (T. B. R.)

  • 1766. A Specimen of Printing Types by William Caslon, Letter-founder, London. Printed by John Towers. 1766. Small 4to. (B.M. T, 320, [11].)

  • 1770. A Specimen of Printing Types by William Caslon, Letter-founder, London. 8vo. (Luckombe’s History of Printing, pp. 134–147.)

  • 1770. A Specimen of Printing Types cast by Wiliam Caslon for the use of John Dixcey Cornish, at Number 4, in Printing-House-Yard, Blackfriars, London. 1770. 32mo. (Caslon.)

  • 1784. A Specimen of Cast Ornaments on a new plan by William Caslon and Son. London. 1784. 8vo. (Sohmian Coll., Stockholm.)

  • 1785. A Specimen of Printing Types by William Caslon, Letter-founder to His Majesty. London. Printed by Galabin and Baker, 1785. 8vo. (B.M. 441, f. 14.)

  • 1785. A Specimen of Large letter by William Caslon, London, 1785. Two sheets folio. (B.M. 441, f. 14.)

  • 1785. A Specimen of Printing Types by William Caslon, Letter-founder to His Majesty, 1785. Folio, 8 pp. (Chambers’ Cycl., 1784–6.)

  • 1786. A Specimen of Cast Ornaments on a new plan by William Caslon, Letter-founder to His Majesty. London. Printed by J. W. Galabin, 1786. 8vo. (B.M. 668, g. 17, [2].)

  • 1805. Specimen of Printing Types by Caslon and Catherwood, Letter-founders, Chiswell Street, London. T. Bensley, printer, London. 1805. 8vo. (Ox. Univ. Pr.)

  • 1808. A Specimen of Caslon and Catherwood’s modern-cut Printing Types. London, 1808. 8vo. (Stower’s Printers’ Grammar.)

  • n. d. Specimen of Printing Types by Caslon and Catherwood, Chiswell Street, London. T. Bensley, printer, London. 1812? 8vo. (Caslon.)

  • 1830. Specimen of Printing Types by Caslon and Livermore, Letter-founders, Chiswell Street, London. Bensley, Printer, 1830. 8vo. (Caxt. Cel. 4411.)