Ornamented 1063
John Savard
Posts: 1,215
in Type History
I had encountered a statement that the oldest known faux-Chinese typeface was the one now known as Mandarin, offered under the name "Chinese" in the Cleveland Type Foundry specimen book of 1883.
Well, in the Bruce type specimen of 1882, I found this:
While the name is not indicative, the sample text shows what they had in mind.
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