Gothic Round

10 Line

Box 111

Gothic | Lineal | Uppercase

  • This type measures 10 line in size and was produced with the end-cut method. The type block is stamped Vanderburgh, Wells & Co., New York which was used by Wells and Vanderburgh between 1867–1890.
  • This face was first shown as wood type by Edwin Allen in George Nesbitt’s 1838 First Premium Wood Types Cut by Machinery.
  • This cut of Gothic Round was shown in American Wood Type on page 305 and in the folio on page 82.

Type name used by manufacturer:
Hamilton Gothic Round or No 52
Knox Round Gothic
Morgans & Wilcox Gothic Round [3083]
National Printers’ Materials Gothic Round
Page Gothic Round [4052]
Tubbs Gothic Round or No 2061
Wells Gothic Round [5082]

This is the Wells cut.

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

Character Quantities

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Additional Specimens & Other Content

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

Specimens of Wood Type, Manufactured by D. Knox & Co., Fredericksburg, Ohio (1858); John M. Wing Foundation, Newberry Library, Chicago.

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

Gothic Round, page 305, American Wood Type 1828–1900, Rob Roy Kelly (1969)

letterpress print specimen of wood type from the Rob Roy Kelly American Wood Type Collection Folio Revisited, large yellow circle with black rounded type layered on top and the phrase sweet and sassy sandwiching the circle

From RRK Folio Revisited
Coco Lai, class of 2023
Folio Residency Session 1
2022