Victorian font

I thought someone called this Campanile but it doesn't look at all like Bodoni Campanile.Anyone have any ideas?

Yes, this typeface is Campanile originally cast by MacKellar, Smith and Jordan Type Foundry, not to be confused with Bodoni Campanile which was designed by Robert Hunter Middleton for Ludlow Typographic Company in the late 1930’s.

Campanile has been digitized by 3 people:

Mr. Dan X. Solo: 24 Victorian Display Fonts with CD-Rom available from Dover Publications.

Dieter Steffmann Fonts

Aridi (www.aridi.com)

You can find a complete showing of Campanile in the following books:

VGC Alphabet Library (1973-1985)
Victorian Display Alphavets: 100 Complete Fonts
RyderTypes

You can find these books at your local library or get them through interlibrary loan.

Yours Truly,
Robert

Case marked solved.

Font identified as Campanile.

Excellent history, Robert! Here is a “for show” for jhicken and other passers by.

Thanks for everything, I tracked down the Dover offering and bought the collection through Amazon.

-jeffrey