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See More... (Type Specimens) Clowes. A CATALOGUE OF SELECTED DISPLAY TYPES AND ALSO A FEW BOOK TYPES.
London Clowes n.d. 4to. cloth. 119 pages.
Includes sample advertising using these type specimens. Also includes foreign type faces. With a brochure called "Fresh Faces" loosely inserted in a pocket on the front pastedown.
Price: $ 75.00 other currencies Order nr. 51324

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See More... (Type Specimens) Composing Room BASKERVILLE AND BASKERVILLE BOLD.
New York The Composing Room n.d. (circa 1960) small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, original mailing envelope. not paginated.
Specimens of Baskerville type available from this firm. With a biographical sketch of the designer, and a portrait by artist/calligrapher Ismar David.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 48767

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See More... (Type Specimens) Composing Room. THE CR TYPEBOOK.
New York The Composing Room, Inc. 1965 4to. leatherette loose-leaf binder. xx, 444 pages.
A comprehensive type specimen book, divided into Machine Section and Handset Section, with a convenient one-line specimen index. An introductory section explains the typographic services available from the firm, and the features of the Typographic Reference Center of New York, a non-profit center which offers a gallery, reference library, design studio and more. With presentation bookplate addressed to Mark A. Binn. Back cover has remnants of tape marks.
Price: $ 40.00 other currencies Order nr. 109608

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  (Type Specimens) Composing Room TYPEFACES.
New York The Composing Room n.d., circa 1964 8vo. self paper wrappers, spiral bound 62, (2) pages
A directory of type faces offered by The Composing Room. 14th edition with a listing corrected to June 1964.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 114571

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  (Type Specimens) Composition Systems THE MANY FACES OF.
(Arlington, VA Composition Systems) n.d. 8vo. self paper wrappers unpaginated
Type faces offered by Composition Systems. Includes introductory comments by the company president and illustrations of employees.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 115550

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See More... (Type Specimens) Compugraphic A PORTFOLIO OF DISPLAY TYPEFACES.
Wilmington, MA Compugraphic (1976) 4to. stiff paper wrappers 76 pages
Typefaces offered by CG. Includes listing of sales/service offices and table of contents. Organized alphabetically.
Price: $ 30.00 other currencies Order nr. 109760

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See More... (Type Specimens) Compugraphic A PORTFOLIO OF TEXT TYPEFACES.
Wilmington, MA Compugraphic (1977) 4to. stiff paper wrappers 44 pages
Typefaces offered by CG. Includes listing of sales/service offices and table of contents. Organized alphabetically.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 109759

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See More... (Type Specimens) Conner JAMES CONNER'S SONS, UNITED STATES TYPE FOUNDRY, NEW YORK CITY. SPECIMENS OF ELECTROTYPE CUTS, CORNERS, AND ORNAMENTS & TINTS, ETC. (1888).
Hastings-On-Hudson, NY Morgan & Morgan Inc. (1972) 4to. cloth, dust jacket. (vi), 200 pages.
First printing of the facsimile edition. New introduction by Paul H. Duensing. The original copy was from the Morgan Press Inc. graphic arts collection of early type specimen catalogs. Excellent illustrations of common scenes of everyday life during the period of the 1860-70's. Jacket spotted and covers beneath jacket show spotting.
Price: $ 75.00 other currencies Order nr. 114378

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See More... (Type Specimens) Connors ABRIDGED SPECIMENS OF PRINTING TYPES, BRASS RULE ELECTROTYPES, AND REVISED CATALOGUE PRINTING MATERIALS. JAMES CONNER'S SONS.
New York United States Type Foundry 1888 (but 1999 facsimile) 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 122 pages.
Reprint of important parts of the very rare 1888 printing (see Annenberg p.119; ATF Catalogue p.2386). This facsimile was produced by David Peat and has a one page introductory history. Presentation at bottom of introduction "To Phil Cade with admiration, David Peat, Feb. 99." Corner bumped.
Price: $ 95.00 other currencies Order nr. 109116

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See More... (Type Specimens) Continental. DECORATIVE CAPITALS.
New York Continental Typefounders Association Inc., n.d.(1930?) square 12mo. (12) pages.
Advertisement for decorative capitals for this foundry's "Eve" and "Eve Italic" typefaces, with examples from advertisements & texts. No date, but contents of examples suggest late 20's to about 1930. Revised price list tipped onto front inside cover.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 50693

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See More... (Type Specimens) Continental THE EVE SERIES.
New York Continental Typefounders Association n.d. 4to self paper wrappers unpaginated
Description of the Eve type face, with samples of Roman and Italics. This face was originally designed by Rudolf Koch in Germany. Examples of advertisements also included. Listing of agents throughout the USA. Wrappers very lightly tanned.
Price: $ 12.00 other currencies Order nr. 109139

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See More... (Type Specimens) Continental. [FOUR BOOKLETS ISSUED BY THIS TYPE FOUNDRY].
New York Continental Typefounders Association n.d. 4to. self paper wrappers
£Includes Condensed Specimen Book (8 pages), Continental Type Condensed Specimen Book, Second Edition, Fall of 1933 (8 pages), News (8 pages) and Selection of Amsterdam Continental Type Faces (6 pages).
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 77940

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See More... (Type Specimens) Continental. SPECIMENS OF CASLON OLD FACE ROMAN & ITALIC.
London Continental Typefounders of Chicago n.d. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 16 pages.
Beautiful Caslon Old Face founts, Roman and Italic, in which sixteen sizes are shown here were engraved by William Caslon over 200 years ago. Corner of front cover torn off.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 57576

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See More... (Type Specimens) Continental. SPECIMENS OF CASLON OLD FACE, ROMAN & ITALIC CAST ENTIRELY FROM THE MATRICES WHICH WERE ENGRAVED IN THE EARLY PART OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY BY WILLIAM CASLON.
New York Continental Typefounders Association, Inc. n.d. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 12 pages.
Distributed for Caslon by Continental. Printed in red and black.
Price: $ 50.00 other currencies Order nr. 109114

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See More... (Type Specimens) Curwen Press. A SPECIMEN BOOK OF TYPES & ORNAMENTS.
London Published for the Curwen Press by The Fleuron Ltd. 1928 small 4to. cloth, leather spine label, top edge gilt. ix, 229, (13) pages.
Limited to 135 numbered copies. The first of the three type specimen books issued by the Curwen Press. Contains a two page prefatory note by Oliver Simon. This is followed by demonstrations of 15 type faces, initial letters, borders and printers' flowers, ornaments, head-pieces, vignettes, etc. Includes the work of Claud Lovat Fraser, Paul Nash, Albert Rutherston, Randolph Schwabe, and Percy Smith. A magnificent specimen book printed on fine paper. Small foxing spot at the fore-edge of a few leaves.
Price: $ 2,500.00 other currencies Order nr. 39623

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See More... (Type Specimens) Danel, L. LIVRET TYPOGRAPHIQUE L. DANEL.
(Lille) L. Danel (1935) 4to. paper-covered boards; label on front board xiv, (iv), 183, (5) pages
Text in French. Introduction by Maximilien Vox. Historical sketch of the Danel foundries in Lille and Loos with black and white illustrations. Table of contents organized by category (ancien, moderne, classique, etc.), including lines, ornaments and symbols. Boards lightly scuffed at edges. Label on front board scuffed.
Price: $ 225.00 other currencies Order nr. 109792

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See More... (Type Specimens) De Jong, Cees W., Alston Purvis, Jan Tholenaar (editors) A VISUAL HISTORY OF TYPEFACES AND GRAPHIC STYLES, VOLUME 1. 1628-1900.
Volume 1 Cologne, Germany Taschen 2009 4to cloth 360 pages
Vol 1: This exuberant selection of typographic fonts and styles traces the modern evolution of the printed letter, reproducing pages from exquisitely designed catalogs showing type specimens in roman, italic, bold, semi-bold, narrow, and broad fonts. Also included are borders, ornaments, initial letters and decorations, and many spectacular examples of their use. Victorian fonts, spectacular in their complexity, are accorded a prominent place. In addition, examples from lithography and letters by inscription carvers and calligraphers are also included and described.

Featured works by type designers William Caslon, Fritz Helmuth Ehmcke, Peter Behrens, Rudolf Koch, Eric Gill, Jan van Krimpen, Paul Renner, Jan Tschichold, A. M. Cassandre, Aldo Novarese, and Adrian Frutiger.

In order to accommodate a vast amount of material, the publisher has divided this text into two volumes. This, the first volume covers the period from 1628-1900 and contains a history of the collection by Jan Tholenaar.

Includes exclusive access with TASCHEN keycard to online image library: over 1400 high-resolution scans of type specimens downloadable for unrestricted use.
Price: $ 60.00 other currencies Order nr. 109837

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See More... (Type Specimens) De Jong, Cees W., Alston Purvis, Jan Tholenaar (editors) A VISUAL HISTORY OF TYPEFACES AND GRAPHIC STYLES, VOLUME 2. 1901-1938.
Volume 2 Cologne, Germany Taschen 2010 4to cloth 360 pages
Vol 2: This book offers a connoisseur's overview of typeface design, exploring the most elegant fonts from the history of publishing. Taken from a distinguished Dutch collection, this exuberant two-volume edition traces the evolution of the printed letter via exquisitely designed catalogs, showing type specimens in roman, italic, bold, semi-bold, narrow, and broad fonts. Borders, ornaments, initial letters and decorations are also included, along with lithographic examples, letters by signwriters, inscription carvers, and calligraphers.

The two volumes feature works by type designers William Caslon, Fritz Helmuth Ehmcke, Peter Behrens, Rudolf Koch, Eric Gill, Jan van Krimpen, Paul Renner, Jan Tschichold, A. M. Cassandre, Aldo Novarese, and Adrian Frutiger.

In order to accommodate a vast amount of material, the publishers divided this text into two volumes. This, the second volume, covers the period from 1900 to the mid-20th century, and contains a historical outline by Alston W. Purvis.

Includes exclusive access with TASCHEN keycard to online image library: over 1400 high-resolution scans of type specimens downloadable for unrestricted use.
Price: $ 60.00 other currencies Order nr. 109838

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See More... (Type Specimens) Dewsnap, Don. DESKTOP PUBLISHER'S EASY TYPE GUIDE, THE 150 MOST IMPORTANT TYPEFACES.
Rockport (MA) Rockport Publishers 1992 oblong small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 176 pages.
A type specimen book for the computer age which emulates those of an earlier age. After a brief introduction, 150 faces are presented in samples of alphabets, figures and texts (which discuss the typeface). Unlike older specimen books, it is actually paginated. For sources, the reader is referred to Adobe Systems International.
Price: $ 5.00 other currencies Order nr. 52442

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See More... (Type Specimens) Diamant. DIAMANTYPES, ONE LINE SHOWING OF TYPES, ORNAMENTS, INITIALS, BORDERS, TYPOGRAPHIC SIGNS, ACCENTS
New York Diamant Typographic Service, Inc. n.d. 4to. stiff paper wrappers, plastic spiral binding. (22) pages.
Slightly faded covers.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 78943

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See More... (Type Specimens) Dico LETTERPROEF DRUKKERIJ DICO
Amsterdam Drukkerij Dico n.d. (circa 1945) 4to. stiff paper wrappers 76, (2) pages.
Well illustrated in color. A Dutch printer's specimen book showing their range of type and typographical advertising. Large foldout specimen as last leaf. Wear along spine with tears. Small paper label on front cover. Corners bumped. Ownership stamp on title page and a few other pages.
Price: $ 85.00 other currencies Order nr. 78886

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See More... (Type Specimens) DIGITAL TYPE.
Rockport Rockport Publishers 1997 small 4to. printed paper-covered boards. 141, (3) pages.
First edition. Introduction by Clifford Stoltze. Filled with examples in color of digital type used in signage, posters, logos, brochures, Catalogues, books, magazines, miscellaneous.
Price: $ 5.00 other currencies Order nr. 49134

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See More... (Type Specimens) Drukkerij W.C. den Ouden MACHINE LETTERPROEF.
(Amsterdam) Drukkerij W.C. den Ouden (1967) 4to. stiff paper wrappers, plastic spiral binding unpaginated
Text in Dutch. Catalogue of a variety of type faces offered by this firm.
Price: $ 30.00 other currencies Order nr. 109705

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See More... (Type Specimens) Eastern. A SPECIMEN OF FAIRFIELD TYPE.
Bangor, Maine Eastern Corporation n.d. large broadside specimen sheet folded twice with explanatory sheet printed on heavy paper stock loosely inserted.
Designed by Rudolph Ruzicka with information on him.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 31660

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See More... (Type Specimens) Eastern. A SPECIMEN OF FAIRFIELD TYPE.
Bangor, Maine Eastern Corporation n.d. large broadside specimen sheet folded twice.
Designed by Rudolph Ruzicka with information on him.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 105671

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