biography
pronunciation:
[kazlon]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1692–1766)
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| biography:
| Type-founder, born in Cradley, Hereford and Worcester, WC England, UK. He set up in business as a gun engraver and toolmaker in London in 1716, but soon began cutting type for printers. His ‘old face’ Caslon types were extensively used in Europe and the USA until the end of the 18th-c, and were later revived. |
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