Grecian

7 Line

Box 037

Antique | Egyptian | Uppercase

  • This type measures 7 line in size and was produced with the end-cut method. The type block is stamped Wm. H. Page & Co., Greenville, Ct. which was used by Page and Mowry between 1859–1870.
  • This face was first shown as wood type by William H. Page in his 1860 Supplementary Specimens of
    Wood Type.
  • This cut of Grecian was shown in American Wood Type on page 275 and in the folio on page 7.

Type name used by manufacturer:
Cooley Grecian
Knox Grecian
Morgans & Wilcox Grecian [3150]
National Printers’ Materials Grecian
Page Grecian [285]
Wells Grecian [5125]

This is the Page cut.

This face was first listed, though not shown, by David Knox in his 1858 Specimens of Wood Type. John Cooley showed a Grecian, though a more condensed version than this design, in his c.1859 Specimens of Wood Type.

Kelly believed this design to have originated as a wood type.

simple specimen of Grecian wood type from the Rob Roy Kelly collection, printed in the UT Design Lab

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Additional Specimens & Other Content

antique original wood type specimen catalog from wood type manufacturers in the 1800s featuring Grecian type

Specimens of printing types plain & ornamental : rules, borders, cuts, &c.from the Montreal Type Foundry, C.T. Palsgrove, Proprietor (1865); William Colgate Printing Collection, Rare Books and Special Collections, McGill University Library

Grecian specimen book page from American Wood Type 1828-1900 by Rob Roy Kelly

Grecian, page 275, American Wood Type 1828–1900, Rob Roy Kelly (1969)

letterpress print wood type specimen from the Rob Roy Kelly American Wood Type Collection Folio Revisited, lowercase and uppercase letters, framed by ornaments printed in two layers using black and green ink

From RRK Folio Revisited
Juliana Flores, class of 2027
Folio Residency Session 4
2025