De Vinne credits Samuel Nelson Dickinson with “modelling” the first Scotch in Boston in 1837, a design which he had cut by Alexander Wilson in Glasgow. In 1839, Dickinson opened his foundry with the matrices. Scotch has always been more popular in the US than in Great Britain. Working from original Scotch and W.A. Dwiggins’ Caledonia, David Berlow relighted the American tradition with this brilliant text face for Newsweek; FB 1993