First shown as wood type by William H. Page in his 1878 Specimens of Wood Type. The design was named No 51 [309] by Page, Gothic Tuscan Condensed No 9 or No 2181 by Tubbs, and Mansard No 1 [5201] by Wells [RRK].

Jordan Davies made a digitization named Mansard (Wooden Type Fonts, 2005, used for sample), based on a source credited to Heber Wells.