Issued by Stephenson Blake in 1905. [Reichardt]. “Revived and recut from an earlier mid-19th-century version. Restyled from English No. 20 about 1910, with shortened descenders. Issued as Modern No. 20 in 1955.” [Millington]
Some retail sources credit Ed Benguiat as a designer, but that could be confusion with his ITC Modern No. 216.
Letraset offered a version for dry transfer lettering. Digital versions include Anna Wheeler and Type Solutions’ for Microsoft (1993) and Bitstream.