I have long wondered if the distressed typeface known as Caslon Antique, and originally called Fifteenth Century, was derived from a conventional typeface. I've come across something which looks like it could be the source; Jenson, as designed by Joseph W. Phinney in 1893 at the Dickinson Type Foundry.
However, I came to this conclusion from an illustration of that typeface which did not look like his Jenson Old Style, which certainly had nothing to do with Caslon Antique.
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As you might guess, I have a particular interest in his work.
Caslon Antique and Italic were designed by Berne Nadall and brought out by BB&S in 1896-98 as Fifteenth Century (XV Century in one early announcement) and Italic. Although they aren't really representative of types of that time, being a poor copy of a crude early typeface cut about 1475 in Venice, they have become popular for the simulation of supposedly quaint American types of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.