Antiques (Egyptians) were particularly suited to narrow widths. An important variation was “condensed”-a simple idea which was quickly popular since it allowed longer and bigger words on the page. New fonts were often extensions of successful designs. The 1830s consolidated innovations of the previous three decades. (Double pica was the size later called 24 pt.) Caslon Canon Antique Compressed. These capture the innovations of masters from Italy and France, but retain British qualities of Baskerville, Fry, and Wilson. In 1796 Caslon’s widow Elizabeth commissioned John Isaac Drury to cut a series of moderns. In the late 1700s the Caslon foundry found that the famed old style pioneered by William Caslon I was going out of style, while the “modern” style, with its vertical stress and extreme contrast, was sweeping the continent and then Britain. On its side, a punch for Caslon’s Double Pica No. On these pages we see the punches that the foundries used to make the matrices, the molds, from where the type was cast.
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Full of character and vigor, these typefaces were made by skilled engravers-by hand. Here are the machine tools of the great English type design innovations of the 19th century: the Sans, Egyptians, Italians, Tuscans and Clarendons. Mosley also brought the matrices of Steven Shanks, successors to Figgins.
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There were over 1,000 boxes, weighing more than three tons.
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In the 1970s he acquired the punches of the Caslon foundry. Bride has become a leading collection of printing and graphic design material, much of it collected under its past librarian James Mosley, now at Reading Univeristy. Bride Library in Fleet Street, the historical neighborhood of printers and newspapers. What remains of these enormous ventures can be found at St. Based in London, both operated in various guises from the 18th to the 20th century. TWO OF THE GIANTS in type founding were the Caslon and Figgins foundries. History of type The way it wasĪ look inside the great St.