Modern type display and the use of type ornament (1911)
Wyse, Henry T. (Henry Taylor), 1870-1951 · Edinburgh, H.T. Wyse · leaf 147
79 these are added solely for the purpose of giving a sumptuous effect, and as … more ornamental, and rather less legible ANGLO-SAXON 48 Point. than Black No. 4. The individual H. W. Caslon & Co., Ltd., London. letters are, however, more distinctive, FIG. 72. no one being at all likely to be mis¬ taken for any other. The name Anglo -Saxon, by the way, is a misnomer, quite…
Typography · Printing -- Specimens · Alphabet
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