Appears in the Specimens of Printing Types by
Farmer, Little & Co. from 1887. [MacMillan]
Registered in England by Caslon in 1887. [Gray
1976] Before 1898, Theinhardt (later Berthold) had a version
named Alt-Englisch. [Reichardt
2011]
Day & Collins had it as wood type, see
the cover of their 1910 specimen. Roman Scherer’s
Serie
5377 is another wood type version.
Included in the Morgan Press Collection by Headliners as
MP 427 and shown in the More Morgan
catalog (1968). Added to Letraset’s Letragraphica range as
Primitive with Stephenson Blake (successor to Caslon)
credits. [Letraset 1976]
Listed as Laertes. [Typeshop 1973] [Phil’s
Photo 1985] Also shown with alias Alten Book.
[Castcraft
1978]
Digitizations include the freebies More…
Appears in the Specimens of Printing Types by Farmer, Little & Co. from 1887. [MacMillan] Registered in England by Caslon in 1887. [Gray 1976] Before 1898, Theinhardt (later Berthold) had a version named Alt-Englisch. [Reichardt 2011]
Day & Collins had it as wood type, see the cover of their 1910 specimen. Roman Scherer’s Serie 5377 is another wood type version.
Included in the Morgan Press Collection by Headliners as MP 427 and shown in the More Morgan catalog (1968). Added to Letraset’s Letragraphica range as Primitive with Stephenson Blake (successor to Caslon) credits. [Letraset 1976] Listed as Laertes. [Typeshop 1973] [Phil’s Photo 1985] Also shown with alias Alten Book. [Castcraft 1978]
Digitizations include the freebies Primitive by Rick Mueller (1993) and Level Fourteen Druid by Mickey Rossi (2000), as well as the commercial Bluebeard by Patrick Griffin (Canada Type, 2004; used for the sample).
