I found this document at the Internet Archive:
It includes pages from several publications of the Bible famous for their typography, including the ones by Baskerville and Rogers. What particularly piqued my interest was a page from the Doves Bible, at sufficient resolution, unlike other books by the Doves Press on the site, that it was clear what the shape of the comma was.
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Does anyone know, by any chance, what face they used for the very first page of that document? The one that lists changes across the centuries, with red rubric type for the century? I really like it a lot. It's so excellently British.
1. I got thrown off by your mention of Oxford; the context misled me into thinking of a very different face. Now I see the one you had in mind doesn't seem to have been digitized -- at any rate, not by any of the outfits I'm familiar with. If anyone knows different, I'd be happy to be pointed in the right direction.
2. I too have a secret fondness for 'invisible' type. I collect them compulsively. But, I must say, I'm not familiar with the one you mention, Linotype No. Twenty-One. Was it ever for sale? Another one I like a lot, but is no longer for sale, is AT News no. 2. A sample, below.
3. The Caslon no. 4 you showed us strikes me as an extinct relative to the (also defunct) Berthold Caslon Buch and to Caslon 540. Is that another face that didn't make it to digital?
So, I have a question, then. If Caslon 3 is the bold style, and 4 was likely the demibold, then what counts as the Regular style in their lineup? Was it Caslon 540?
I'm thinking I should start a thread about extinct masterpieces that didn't make it to digitization. Today alone I learned about a bunch of them.
It's very unlike Caslon Old Face in that the latter has a beautifully sloped lowercase F, which it inherited from a late-Baroque ancestor progenitor. Mr Blokland captured that very well with DTL Fell. The better Caslons have it too.