Caslon Old Face, Roman & Italic. Cast entirely from matrices produced from the original punches engraved in the early part of the eighteenth century in Chiswell Street, London by William Caslon

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H. W. Caslon & Co. Ltd., London, 1924. 64 pages. Tall 4to (32 x 25,5 cm). Green cloth hardcover, with cover paste on title box. No dust jacket as issued but in a protective plastic covering, decorated endpapers, untrimmed edges. Light tanning on half-title page (offset from frontispiece). Portrait frontis, a foldout facsimile of the 1734 specimen sheet issued by Caslon, text- & title pages, facsimiles and designed samples, many in more than one colour.

Attractive production by the master printer Geo. W. Jones at his Sign of the Dolphin Press. (Rogerson 82).