James Mosley, A Dictionnary of Punchcutters for Printing Types, London, 1999. [unpublished]

James Mosley, (1935 – 2025).

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Animated gif. Specimens of: Caslon’s ‘Two Lines English Egyptian’ shown in his Specimen of Printing Types (London, 1816) © Type Archive Vincent Figgins’s ‘Five Lines Pica Antique’ shown in his 1815 specimen (facsimile). The leaves on which these types are printed are actually dated 1817 © St Bride Foundation (library accession number 38184/32305) Vincent Figgins’s ‘Two-Line Great Primer Sans-serif’ (1830), shown in his 1832 specimen © St Bride Foundation (library accession number 22224)

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