Lyon Way, St. Albans, AL4 0LB, Hertfordshire, GBIn 1720, William Caslon, an engraver of firearms from the West Midlands, started his career in type design when he created a typeface for the New Testament in Arabic. During the 1914-18 Great War many of the Caslon Type Casting machines were turned over to producing bullets for the British Army. Caslon� Limited spent 282 happy (and sometimes not so happy years) in London�s EC1 district occupying premises in Chiswell Street, Aylesbury Street and Bakers Row before making the move in 2002 to its current location in St Albans, Hertfordshire.
