The first of a series of wood type specimens starts with this beautiful 6-line (72pt) Stephenson, Blake Old Style No.5 italic.

From as early as 1912, Stephenson, Blake & Co began producing a range of wood letter typefaces based heavily on Caslon’s famous Old Face. Redesigned with shorter ascenders and descenders than the original hot metal version, they called these founts simply ’Old Style’.

Printed in black with the ampersand in both orange and green, with footnotes set in 8pt Monotype Garamond.

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Edition of 18 in each colour
380mm x 235mm