An all-caps dimensional face known. Issued as Madison for phototype by VGC, as part of the T.J. Lyons Antique Type Collection, Volume I, adopted from wood type known as English Egyptian in 1819. Comes with various alternates, some of which show eroded details. [1967 specimen] Also carried by Photoscript [1968 catalog] and by Conway Phototypesetting in the 1960s. [Commercial Classics] Shown by Berthold (w/ Photoscript credit) [Gorissen 1974], Castcraft, [Castcraft 1978], Typeshop (as Madison Square) [ca. late 1970s catalog], and in Monsen Period Typefaces (1990, as 12*Arcadian) [Oka]

“[I]t copies the effect from the Ten Lines Sans Surryphs Ornamented like Thorowgood Grotesque Dimensional, but not the letters themselves. The quality and overall impression is not of the same standard as the original. It is tempting to think that the model for it was the sample shown in the first edition of Gray’s Nineteenth Century Ornamented Type. In this edition, the illustrations of type in the book were not photographically reproduced, but traced by hand from the original specimens from which the blocks were made. This would make the variant from the latter-twentieth century a copy of a copy of the original.” – Commercial Classics

The basic letterforms are closer to a face carried by Besley (Fann Street Foundry) in c.1860, and reproduced as #210 in the second edition of Nineteenth Century Ornamented Typefaces. See also Davison Dimensional.