Figures 265 & 266
Ornaments: William Caslon & Son’s Specimen, London
From a copy in the Library of the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester
1763
Caslon’s ornaments or flowers deserve in their way as much praise as his types. Mr. W. A. Dwiggins says,
To a designer’s eyes they have taken as individual patterns, an inevitable quality, a finality of right construction that baffles any attempt to change or improve.… Excellent as single spots, the Caslon flowers multiply their beauties when composed in bands or borders as ornamentation for letter-press.