New specimen of printing types.
A type specimen book issued in 1820 by the Caslon and Catherwood foundry, presenting printing types for printers and typesetters. The pictures are full-page displays of bold display faces: one sets the words 'Ten-line pica' beside a large 'E.N.D. music' lettering, and another shows 'Antique' alphabets in heavy slab-like capitals with numerals and an ampersand, arranged in columns. A designer could take from them the dramatic scale contrast, tightly packed uppercase letterforms, and the sheer weight of early nineteenth-century wood-type faces.
