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Left: Aetna Condensed.
Right: Aldine.
These are some excerpts of the Morgans & Wilcox Wood Type Catalog from 1890. We'll go roughly in alphabetic order. Also, readers will gind it helpful that the names of the typefaces are inside the jpg file names.
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Left: Aetna Condensed. Right: Aldine. | ||||||
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Antique Tuscan Condensed. | ||
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Various styles of Antique Condensed. | ||||||
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Left: Belgian. Now why would this be called Belgium? Right: Buffalo. | ||||
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These faces were patented by the Boston Type Foundry (whatever that meant then...). Left: Facade X Condensed. Right: Facade Condensed. | ||||
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Left: Bulletin and Bulletin Script. Right: Caslon. | ||||
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Faces patented by the Central Type Foundry: Art Gothic, and the Geometric family (right). Art Gothic is as art nouveau as it can get. | ||||
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The Clarendons make up the bulk of the catalog. Here we have Clarendon Extended (left) and Clarendon No. 1 (right). Bottom at right: Antique Tuscan X Condensed. | ||||
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Two more Clarendons: Clarendon No. 1 (left), and Clarendon Liht Face. | ||||
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Left: Formal scripts: Clayton, Belmont. Right: corners and fists. | ||||||
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Courier. | ||
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Egyptian Condensed and Egyptian Condensed Antique. | ||||||
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Egyptian Ornamented and Clarendon Lightface Ornamented. | ||
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Two styles of French Antique. | ||||
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French Clarendon in various styles. The leftmost picture also shows Parisian Antique. | ||||||||
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Left: Blackletters uninspiringly named German and Prussian. Right: Various styles of Gotham and Newton. | ||||
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Two pics on the left: Gothic Condensed. Right: various round faces including Gothic Round and French Clarendon Round. | ||||||
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Left: Grecian, Octagon, Beveled. Right: Keystone, Richard, Gothic Pointed, Gothic Dotted, Morgans, Haubert, Ellsworth, Antique Tuscan No. 3, Coronet, Old Style Italic, Gothic Light Face Italic, Clrendon Light Face italic, Italic Light Face, American, Aldine Ornamented. | ||||
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Leghorn Script. Hard to imagine wood types that make good scripts, and this cancerous horror proves the point. | ||
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Left: Almah (Lindsay type Foundry). Right: Lyric, Trenton, Octic, Bolivian. | ||||
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Left: Mikado. Right: Octagon, and Egyptian Antique No. 1. | ||||
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Various styles of OldStyle: No. 2, No. 3, Antique and Condensed. the rightmost pic also shows Peerless No. 1. | ||||||||
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Left: A smorgasbord of faces in open, shaded and other special styles. Right: some ornaments. | ||||
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Left: From the Phelps and Dalton Foundry, Quaint. | ||
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Leftmost pics: Roman Light Face. On the left, we also have Extended versions of Old Style, Peerless, Gothic Light Face, Clarendon Light Face and Antique Tuscan. The middle pic has at the bootom Old Style and Modern Roman, a rare didone in this collection. Right: Skeleton Antique. | ||||||
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Ending with Teniers No. 1 (left) and Trenton. | ||||
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