The Caslon Foundry. Established in the Year 1716. Specimens of Printing Types and Illustated Catalogue of Printing Metals. 4to, 26cm, Portrait frontispiece, pp.[412] + 89p Brass Rules. H.W. Caslon & Company, Limited, 23 and 23 Chiswell Street, 1908 (1909).
Printed in black, with many colours for decoration and displaying electrotype ornaments. Brown cloth, spine stammped in gilt, upper board titled and decorated in black. New endpapers. January 1909 price list gummed down on May 1908. Aside from the brass rules, entirely unpaginated, but with one small excision collates perfect and complete. Slight rubbing to edges af spine. A ver good bright copy of a scarce speciment book.
In brief: a really magnificent display of Caslon Old Face Roman & Italic; Specimens of Old Style, Titling, Roman, Italic; Specimen pages of Cheltenham Old Style; Jenson Old Style, De Vinne, Latin Expanded, Nos. 2,3, & 4. Ionics, Atlas, Dorics, Condensed Sans-Serifs, Lining Gothics, Rothbury, Anglo-Saxon, St. John, Scripts, Rondes, Quill, Scribble, Typewrite, Caligragh, Figaro, Kenilworth, Columbian Italic, Morland Italic, Ye Primitive Series, Ruskin, Enchorial, Mural, Perpective, Morland Initials, Old-Style Initials, Antique Compressed, Cheques Fists, Logotype Imprints, Figures, Fractions, Borders on Point Bodies, Fleurs-de-lis, Combination Bodies, Combination Ornaments, Art Electritypes.
