Hansard's New Upper Case

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This English layout is that shown by Hansard: Typographia (1825), reprinted Thoemmes 1998, as the lay in use after the long s was discarded. It is almost the same as the Upper of Luckombe: The History and Art of Printing (1771), apart from using the long s boxes for spacing, and swapping || and §. Johnson's Typographia of 1824 has a slightly different New Upper, in particular with numerals in different rows and with k still in the Upper case.

Note that the boxes with A,B, etc are small caps. The ¦ box represents a single dagger, and ¦¦ a double dagger. The |b box represents the long s with b ligature, etc.

The empty case configuration is that of Moxon, and Smith (1755), Luckombe (1771), Stower (1808), Johnson (1824), Savage (1841), Tomlinson (1853), Mackellar (1870), Miller & Richard (1873), Southward (1882), Barnhart Bros & Spindler's News (1890s), Stephenson Blake & Co (1922), Caslon (1925) etc. The companion Lower is the Hansard New case.

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This page was written in 1998 by David Bolton and last updated 28 February 02.