THE
PRINTER
in Eighteenth-Century
WILLIAMSBURG
An Account of his Life & Times, & of his Craft
Williamſburg Craft Series
WILLIAMSBURG
Publiſhed by Colonial Williamſburg
MMI
A Word to the Reader about Eighteenth-Century Typography
The paragraphs on this Page and the next have been ſet in an eighteenth-century Manner. The Type uſed is Caſlon, developed in the early Part of the eighteenth Century by William Caſlon, the greateſt of the Engliſh Letter Founders. Caſlon in 1734 iſſued his firſt Broadſide Specimen Sheet of Type Faces cut at his Foundry during the preceding Decade and a Half.