John Baskerville, who lived and worked about the same period, was also a very eminent typefounder, but Baskerville’s types were too thin in the up-strokes to be considered equal to Caslon’s. Since that time such sheets of types have become common.
Late in the nineteenth century William Morris revived several of the old English block-letter types, and called them by the old names, “Chaucer,” “Golden,” “Troy.”
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