Empty Italic (Job) Case

This U.S. case matches that illustrated in Harpel: Typograph or Book of Specimens (1870) and MacKellar: The American Printer (15th ed 1885, though not 5th ed 1870), and Curtis & Mitchell: Price List (1878) and (1886), and Palmer & Rey: Type Specimen Book (1892), and Lockwood: American Dictionary of Printing & Bookmaking (1894) and Barnhart Bros & Spindler: Pony Specimen (1890s), and American Type Founders: Blue Book (1895), and De Vinne: Practice of Typography - Modern Methods of Book Composition (1904), and American Type Founders: American Line Type Book (1906) and the Hamilton case (nd) in Long: Wood Type & Printing Collectibles (1980)

The upper case bay has seven equal sized rows of boxes. However, the later version of American Type Founders (1923), Missouri-Central (1959) and American Printing Equipment & Supply Co (1983) differs in having 3 small rows, then 3 tall rows, then 1 small row in the right hand bay, rather than 7 equal rows. De Vinne also shows an (Italic) Job case with 8 boxes, rather than seven, in each upper case row.

Note that the Italic case differs from the otherwise similar California Job case as that case has only five rows in the upper case bay. There is also a Two Third Italic version of the case.