Bookwork Lower Case

This English typecase lay is that of Southward: Practical Printing (1st ed 1882 and 2nd ed 1884), but not in the 3rd edition of 1887, which has a very different Lower Case lay. However, the lay re-appears in Southward & Powell, Practical Printing (1892) as illustrated by Gaskell, The Lay of the Case, in Bowers, Studies in Bibliography (1969)) and again in the 5th edition of 1900. It is identical to Johnson's New of 1824, except that Southward has replaced mids with thins, inserted .... next to fl and omitted mids. Note that the letter k is still stored in the Upper case. There is no ç in either Lower or Upper, but there is an em dash in both.

The same lay is earlier shown by Timperley: The Printers' Manual (1838) as the Old Plan, except that he shows mids where Southward shows thins, and he puts the thins in the empty boxes beside ff and fi, and shows a 2 dot rather than 3 dot leader in the box beside fl. The lay is also shown by Tomlinson: Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts (1853), except that he puts three part braces in the boxes beside fl ff and fi. Later, Lockwood (1894) omits ... and also omits the hair spaces and em dash.

The companion upper is the Bookwork Upper lay and the empty configuration is the English Lower.