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Author: Thomas, Isaiah, 1749-1831.
Title: A specimen of Isaiah Thomas's printing types. Being as large and complete an assortment as is to be met with in any one printing-office in America. : Chiefly manufactured by that great artist, William Caslon, Esq; of London.
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Print source: A specimen of Isaiah Thomas's printing types. Being as large and complete an assortment as is to be met with in any one printing-office in America. : Chiefly manufactured by that great artist, William Caslon, Esq; of London.
Thomas, Isaiah, 1749-1831.
Printed at Worcester, Massachusetts,: by Isaiah Thomas., MDCCLXXXV [i.e., 1787].
Subject terms:
Caslon, William, 1693-1766.
Printing -- Specimens.
Type and type-founding.
Printing.
Type specimens.
URL: https://name.umdl.umich.edu/N15181.0001.001
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title page
dedication
Eleven Lines Pica.
Ten Lines Pica.
Nine Lines Pica.
Six Lines Pica.
Five Lines Pica.
Two Lines Great Primer.
Two Lines English.
Two Lines Pica.
Two Lines Small Pica.
Two Lines Long Primer.
Two Lines Burgeois.
Two Lines Brevier.
Two Lines Minion.
Two Lines Nonpareil.
Two Lines Pearl.
French Cannon.
Two Lines Great Primer.
Two Lines English.
DOUBLE PICA. NO. I.
Great Primer. No. I.
DOUBLE PICA. NO. II.
GREAT PRIMER. NO. II.
ENGLISH. NO. II.
PICA. NO. I.
ENGLISH. NO. III.
PICA. NO. II.
SMALL PICA. NO. I.
LONG PRIMER. NO. I.
SMALL PICA. NO. II.
LONG PRIMER. NO. II.
BURGEOIS. NO. I.
LONG PRIMER. NO. III.
LONG PRIMER. NO. IV.
BURGEOIS on BREVIER BODY.
MINION. NO. II.
BREVIER. NO. I.
BURGEOIS. NO. II.
BREVIER. NO. II.
SMALL PICA. Open.
LONG PRIMER. Open.
BURGEOIS on BREVIER BODY. Open.
BURGEOIS on BREVIER BODY. NO. II
MINION. NO. I.
PEARL Roman
PEARL Italick.
PEARL. Open.
BURGEOIS. Open.
LONG PRIMER. Scabd.
BURGEOIS. Scabd.
example
GREEK.
HEBREW.
example
Two Lines Great Primer Black.
Great Primer Black.
Pica Black
SCRIPT. (Circular.)
Tewksbury. By A. WOOD. Words from Dr. WATTS.
example
examples
Double Pica Flowers.
Great Primer Flowers.
English Flowers.
Pica Flowers.
Small Pica Flowers.
Long Primer Flowers.
Long Primer Flowers continued.
Long Primer Flowers continued.
Brevier Flowers.
Nonpareil Flowers.
Pearl Flowers.
Types for ornamenting Advertisements in News Papers.
Appendix to the Flowers.
French Canon.
Two Lines English.
Double Pica.
Great Primer.
English.
Small Pica.
Long Primer.
Brevier.
CHECK. Four Lines Pica.
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