- 2-line Gt. Primer—1803
- Great Primer—May, 1802
- English 1—August, 1802
- English 2—April, 1805
- Pica 2 and 3—March, 1805
- Small Pica 1, 2, and 3—July, 1804
- Long Primer 1, 2, and 3—July, 1804.
- Bourgeois 1 and 2—July, 1802
- Brevier 1 and 2—May, 1805
- Minion—May, 1805
- Nonpareil 1, 2—October, 1803.
[512] The Printers’ Grammar, etc., by C. Stower, Printer. London, 1808. 8vo. The following note is prefixed to the specimen: “A 4-line Pica, Canon and Double Pica of a bold and elegant shape, were not quite ready to introduce with these specimens.”
[513] Savage, in his Hints on Decorative Printing, London, 1822, 4to, chapter ii, shows specimens of Mrs. Caslon’s Roman letter contrasted with the old models of the Foundry on the one hand, and its more recent developments on the other.
[514] “Chiswell Street, January 19, 1814. Henry Caslon respectfully informs his friends and the printers in general, that the term of his partnership with the executors of the late Mr. Nathaniel Catherwood having expired, he has entered into a new engagement with Mr. John James Catherwood, brother to his late partner, and that the firm is now carried on under the firm of Henry Caslon and J. J. Catherwood. He embraces this opportunity of expressing his grateful sense of the distinguished patronage the Foundry has received, and the kind encouragement he has individually experienced from his friends in the printing business, since the death of his mother and late partner.”
[515] Typograpia, p. 353.
[516] See post, chap. xvii.
[517] See post, chap. xxi, s.v. Bessemer. In the Directory at the end of Johnson’s Typographia, 1824 (ii, 652), a Catherwood is mentioned among the Letter Founders, Charles’ Sq., Hoxton.
[518] Cut by William Martin.
[519] This beautiful little fount was cut for Pickering’s Greek Testament 1826, and for clearness and minuteness eclipses both the Sedan Greek, and that of Blean of Amsterdam. It was also used in the Homer of 1831. Dibdin (Introd. to the Classics, 1827, i, 166) shows a specimen of the type.