Photo: Indra Kupferschmid. License: All Rights Reserved.

Speaking of Caslon Italics – here's a book cover with spacing of the other extreme: Stefan Zweig's "The Royal Game" in the German Fischer Taschenbuch edition from the tight-and-touching 1980s. (The omitted i-tittle in the Fischer logo is an interesting trick.) Elsner + Flake's Caslon 540 comes closest.