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Originally Posted by Psymon
I haven't found one -- not free, anyway, and not with all those ligs. If they have the ligs, they're not free, and either way when they have them they're often in a separate "alt" font. And this JSL set is not only free, but it's beautifully designed by an expert type designer who knows what he's doing (which many free font designers don't, and their fonts have horrendous kerning, etc.).
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With FontForge it is relatively easy (if anything can be said to be "easy" with FontForge) to take the ligatures from the "alt" font, insert them in some free private slot of the regular font, and add the ligature definition when needed. Or move the glyphs around. With free fonts, that's all you need. (That, and change the kernings of the moved glyphs, I guess.)
If the fonts are designed by someone knowledgeable, you could contact the author and ask whether he would mind doing that himself, or if he'd oppose your doing that for your specific needs.
I don't have time for a full search now, but:
Heuristica has long-s, and a number of f* and ſ* ligatures (but no ct, ſt)
Espinosa Nova apparently has long-s and ligatures (the Regular font is free, but I don't know if embedding is allowed)
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No they didn't -- and I've been studying the history of print and collecting early printed books for nearly four decades now, and have even had a website on the subject for almost two decades. If ever they broke words at the end of a line and didn't use a hyphen, it was an anomaly, and certainly not standard typography for the time. Trust me on that one. 
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OK, then it might be in even older times, or in a different language, but I'm pretty sure I have seen words broken across lines without hyphens as a normal case. I've just checked the Gutenberg Bible now, and it has "="-like symbols for broken words, so it might have been somewhere else...