The Pouchée Ornamented Types are a collection of specimen sheets printed from antique ornamented types originally produced at the foundry of Louis John Pouchée (b. 1782, d. 1845). The letters were engraved by hand in the 1820s as patterns from which metal types could be made and sold to poster printers. They are richly ornamented fat-face styles, incorporating images of flowers, fruit, animals, musical instruments, agricultural implements, and Masonic symbols within the letterforms.

This collection consists of a limited-edition boxed set of unbound, printed sheets designed and printed by James Mosley and Ian Mortimer at the UK-based private press of I.M. Imprimit in collaboration with St Bride Printing Library, plus an accompanying book, Ornamented Types: Twenty-three Alphabets from the Foundry of Louis John Pouchée.

This project took nearly four years for I.M. Imprimit to complete the edition of 210 boxed sets in 1993. It was named the winner of the Premio Felice Feliciano in 1995.

All prints as well as the the accompanying book are 21 x 15.”

Louis Pouchée, lithograph by Thomas Charles Wageman