Empty Roman Single Case

This German case configuration matches that of Wolffger: Neu-auffgesetztes Formar-Büchlein (1673) as drawn in Gaskell: The Lay of the Case, in Bowers: Studies in Bibliography vol 22 (1969). This pattern of one single case for both 'upper' and 'lower' types continued as the norm in Germany, eg Bauer in 1917. However, in U.K. and U.S., the norm became the separate Upper and Lower cases, eg Moxon Upper and Moxon Lower of 1683, etc.

There is probably a wider horizontal bar between the top four rows of caps and accents, and the bottom rows of lower case, but Gaskell's illustration does not make this clear. The actual type lay is Roman Single.

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This page was written in 1998 by David Bolton and last updated 11 November 2008.