ArchiveType might have something.

It looks like a condensed and redrawn version of either MT Old English Text or BT Cloister Black - they’re both very similar. Then it has had a fancy engraved drop shadow added to it.

If it’s only a piece of one-off display setting you’re doing, it occurs to me that you could fake this digitally by setting the line in the MT Old English Text (even Linotext would do at a pinch) at 100% black, duplicating the type with an offset to the right and down a bit, sending the offset to the back, tinting it with a 50% screen of black and setting a custom line halftone (around 60 degrees and 60 l.p.i.) on it. If you’re working in either Illustrator or Freehand you can also use the outline stroke feature to fatten up the drop shadow so it goes right around the foreground type.

What’s this sample from?

> My thoughts are that it does not exist in digital form, but as metal type.

or probably handlettered.

> It looks like a condensed

Not condensed. This is Textura Quadrata; distinctive features: skating strokes (a, e, r), diamond feet, split ascenders, upright letter

Yves,

Are you there? Textura Quadrata is the style; not the name of the font.

Thank you

Thanks for your feedback, but it’s neither Old English or Cloister, I have both fonts and neither has the curly ‘e.’

We duplicate this font all the time using high-res scans, but it would be much more convenient to have it as a digital typeface. I should have specified that the line shading isn’t part of the typeface, but yes, you’re right, an added feature.

Doubtfully handlettered, we see it too often.