Caslon to be the artist by whom the letters had been cut, he was induced to seek an acquaintance with him. Bowyer, accidentally observed in a bookseller's ship a bound book, the lettering on the back of which seem to him to be executed with more than common neatness and on inquiry nding Mr.
Both printers recognised Caslon's potential to repair the standard of printing since its decline from the days of Caxton: the elder Mr. The first was Bowyer, the second was John Watts. It was only later he became involved with type when two separate strangers noticed his lettering on books found in Mr. After serving an apprenticeship with a metal-worker, he left and began engraving ornamental gun-locks, gun-barrels as well as silver-chasing and making book binding tools, presumably ones used to place lettering on spines and covers. In 1692, William Caslon was born in Cradley, England. That is, I think, their secret: a perfection of the whole, derived from harmonious but not necessarily perfect individual letterforms. His letters when analyzed, especially in the smaller sizes, are not perfect individually but in their mass their e ect is agreeable.
Dutch fonts were monotonous, but Caslon's fonts were not so. Updike explains the fame and excellence of Caslon's types: While he modelled his letters on Dutch types, they were much better for he introduced into his fonts a quality of interest, a variety of design, and a delicacy of modelling, which few Dutch types possessed. Miklos Totfalusi Kis, a Hungarian who had been Voskens' apprentice and who later cut Janson, was also influential. These were the works of Dirk Voskens and Christoffel van Dijck respectively, who were major influences on Caslon as noted by Morison, Johnson and Lane. Seven years later, Cambridge University Press also imported type from Holland. John Fell bought punches and matrices for the Oxford University Press in 1670. Consequently, type was imported, mainly from Holland. This dampened efforts to establish type founding in England.
For many reasons, The Crown of England enforced regulations on the printing presses from the mid-16th century until the beginning of the 18th-century. If no roman numerals are present afterwards, that person was the first with that name. Unless initials are present, it should be assumed that the first name is William. The lineage of the Caslon family is complicated because they all shared similar names, even their wives. TYPE DESIGN INFORMATION PAGE last updated onĪ brief history of the Caslon family, as summarized by Dave Forster in 2012 while he was a student at KABK.
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