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A digitization of Phillipe Grandjean's Romain du Roi type from the book Médailles sur les principaux événements du règne de Louis le Grand (1702), the first book to be set with this type. The Romain de Roi was a constructed type commissioned by Louis…

An engraving of Johannes Enschedé (1708-1780), owner of the Enschedé printing house in Haarlem with his father Izaak Enschedé. Johannes Enschedé ordered a large number of types to be made by Joan Michaël Fleischman and Jacques-François Rosart. His…

A minimalist reproduction of some of the more than 270 characters estimated to have made up the type sort for Johannes Gutenberg's 42-line Bible of 1454-1455.

An English-bodied roman font from William Caslon II's 1785 A Specimen of Printing Types. Originally an engraver of ornaments for London gunmakers, William Caslon is credited with creating a native English typefounding tradition when England…

A great primer size roman type cut by Jacques-Francois Rosart and reproduced in Johannes Enschede's type specimen of 1768.

A black letter font reproduced by Johannes Enschedé in his 1767 type specimen book, Proef van letteren welke gegooten worden in de nieuwe Haerlemsche lettergietery van J. Enschedé, labelled "Oude Hollandse Letteren, van 1470 à 1480."

A type cut by William Martin for William Bulmer and George Nichol of the Boydell Press (latterly the Shakespeare Press.) Daniel Berkeley Updike writes that, "William Martin cut some Greek and Oriental fonts, but he will be best remembered by his…