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I am an art librarian at Cornell University with a range of interests, and a special focus on the history of photography, especially early photography, typography, letter and book arts, and textiles. I have created and maintain this guide to resources and strategies for research in art history for the Cornell community.

I am an avid participant in the annual Wikipedia: Art + Feminism edit-a-thon, and one of the hosts for the Ithaca, NY event.

I helped organize and participated in the editWikipedia4BlackLives edit-a-thon in June 2020.

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Re: Union Pearl

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Sample of the script typeface Union Pearl, issued by a London type foundry around the beginning of the eighteenth century.
Sample of the display typeface Union Pearl, issued by a London type foundry around the beginning of the eighteenth century.

Union Pearl is the name of a typeface—the first display typeface produced in England, ca. 1708. More about that here. Someday, I'll write an article about it myself, if someone else doesn't beat me to it. Well illustrated in this reprint of John Smith's Printer's Grammar, published in 1787 by T. Evans:

Letterpress type spelling the word, Unionpurl, in the typeface, Union Pearl.

Brief Union Pearl Bibliography:

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  • John A. Lane, “The Origins of Union Pearl” Matrix .[1]
  • Stanley Morison, “Decorated Types” The Fleuron[2]
  • Stephenson, Blake & co. Union Pearl: A Seventeenth-Century Decorated Type[3]
  • Rowe Mores, Edward. A Dissertation Upon English Typographical Founders and Founderies[4]
  • Berry, Johnson & Jaspert. Encyclopaedia of Typefaces. 55th Anniversary Ed.[5]
  • Supposedly: Sally Castle. The Grover Foundry’s Union Pearl: the first English ornamental script (Dissertation, University of Reading, 2004)--not found in Reading catalog, however

References

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  1. ^ Lane, John A. (1992). "The Origins of Union Pearl". Matrix (12): 125–133.
  2. ^ Morison, Stanley (1928). "Decorated Types". The Fleuron (6): 95–130.
  3. ^ Stephenson, Blake and Company (1948). Union Pearl: a seventeenth century decorated type. Sheffield, England: Caslon Letter Foundry.
  4. ^ Mores, Edward Rowe (1778). A dissertation upon English typographical founders and founderies. [London.
  5. ^ Jaspert, W. Pincus; Berry, W. Turner; Johnson, A. F (2008). Encyclopaedia of typefaces. London: Cassell Illustrated. ISBN 9781844036707.