print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- G,3.108
- Title
- Object: A Specimen of Caxton's Letter
- Description
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Sheet with facsimile lettering printed by William Caxton; six different examples, the first five consisting of short paragraphs of text, the last a line of large letters; illustration to Ames' 'Typographical Antiquities'. 1749
Engraving
- Production date
- 1749 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 207 millimetres
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Width: 134 millimetres (trimmed)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For a note on Crowle’s extra-illustrated Pennant, see G.1.1
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Typographical Antiquities
- Acquisition date
- 1811
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- G,3.108
