Some older types were sold by the foundry, including a display typeface cut by Moxon. He jointly valued the Grover type foundry in 1728 with John James of the James Foundry, although ultimately he did not buy it, and he did buy part of the foundry of Robert Mitchell in 1739. Besides this, some types he sold came from other founders. In James Mosley's view, they were intended as "unobtrusive substitutes" for specific types his clients already used, and closely resembled them. Ĭaslon's type designs were based closely on the seventeenth-century Dutch types popular in London at the time, cut by punchcutters including Nicolaes Briot and the Voskens family. By 1763 its stock had expanded to be shown in book form. Its first dated specimen appeared in 1734 and the inclusion of a specimen of its types in Chambers' Encyclopaedia made it well-known. The foundry was successful by 1730 and issued a first specimen around that time. He later moved to Helmet Row, then Ironmonger Row from 1727 to 1736, and in 1737 had moved to Chiswell Street, where it would remain for the next two hundred years. Ĭaslon's premises as a gun engraver were based in Vine Street, Minories. His first roman type appeared around 1725 Caslon is the name now given to designs based on his work. Specimens of the Caslon foundry published under the management of William Caslon II but in William Caslon I's lifetime wrote that he established his type foundry in 1720. The quality of his work came to the attention of printers, who engaged him to cut first Arabic and then roman type. He began a career in London with work like cutting the royal coat of arms into government firearms and tooling for bookbinders. William Caslon (1692 – 23 January 1766) was an engraver who had come to London from Cradley, Worcestershire. Some of the types shown were not cut by Caslon, most notably the French Canon roman (probably cut by Joseph Moxon) William Caslon's specimen sheet (dated 1734 but actually issued from 1738 onwards). In the second half of the seventeenth century the Dutch Republic was one of the largest centres of printing expertise, and both Oxford University Press in 1670–2 and the London typefounder John James in 1710 imported matrices from it. However, London was seemingly not a hub of skill in typefounding and many of the types available in London were of poor quality.
CASLON FONT LETTERS MANUAL
Some punchcutters worked in London in the seventeenth century, including Arthur Nicholls and Joseph Moxon, who wrote an manual of how type was made. Type foundries operated in London from the early days of printing. Metal type was traditionally made by punchcutting, carefully cutting punches in steel used to stamp matrices, the moulds used to cast metal type. 7 List of names and proprietors of the foundry.
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