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(Adagio Press) Bahr, Leonard F. THE ADAGIO PRESS.
N.P. Adagio Press n.d. 4to unbound 131 broadside specimen sheets enclosed by heavy paper covers
Ornaments and type faces offered by the Adagio Press. Includes designs by Will Bradley (American Type Founders), D. Stempel, Imre Reiner and Jose Mendoza y Almeida (Typefoundry Amsterdam), Alessandro Butti and Aldo Novarese, G.C. Lange (H. Berthold), American Type Founders, Monotype, Georg Trump, Konrad Bauer and Walter Baum, designers for Bauersche Giesserei, Hermann Zapf, Jan van Krimpen and others. Illustrations of all type faces and ornaments.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 109160

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(American Type Founders) A.T.F. IDEA FILE. NUMBER THREE.
(Elizabeth, NJ) American Type Founders n.d. 4to. self paper wrappers. (8) pages.
"Ideas for Stickers, Ideas for Labels, Ideas for Envelopes." Text and demonstrations of the use of type for these mailing pieces. Printed in three colors.
Price: $ 30.00 other currencies Order nr. 109487

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(ATF.) AMERICAN NUMBERING MACHINES.
N.P. American Type Founders n.d. (circa 1949) 12mo. self paper wrappers. (12) page foldout.
Illustrated.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 94863

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Bradley, Will AMERICAN CHAP-BOOK, I,1
Jersey City American Type Founders Co. 1904 12mo. printed paper-covered boards, paper cover label. 16 pages. With large broadside supplement printed on both sides accompanying the booklet and another supplement entitled "The Chap-Book Borders and Bands".
Contains "Eighteenth-Century Chap-Books and Broadsides" by Bradley. (Huntington Exhibition no.36). Bradley was hired by the ATF to design ornaments and figures. He did a total of 12 issues of the American Chap-Book. Lacks the separately issued supplement. The hardbound version of these chapbooks were sold at a premium. Cracked along back hinge and wear at spine ends.
Price: $ 125.00 other currencies Order nr. 116223

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Bradley, Will AMERICAN CHAP-BOOK, I,2
Jersey City American Type Founders Co. October 1904 12mo. printed paper-covered boards, paper cover label. 16 pages. Accompanied by a large foldout braodside printed on both sides with Bradley designs. Accompanied by an 8 page self paper wrappered brochure entitled "Cheltenham Borders" and also issued in October 1904.
Contains "Directness and Simplicity" by Bradley with many illustrations. With both supplementary pieces present. Wear at spine ends.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 874

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Bradley, Will AMERICAN CHAP-BOOK, I, 3
Jersey City American Type Founders Co. 1904 12mo. decorated paper-covered boards, paper cover label. (32) pages.
Issued in November 1904. Contains "The Use of Borders & Ornaments" by Bradley with many illustrations. Minor wear along bottom of front cover.
Price: $ 100.00 other currencies Order nr. 55926

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Bradley, Will AMERICAN CHAP-BOOK, I,4
Jersey City American Type Founders Co. Christmas 1904 12mo. decorative paper-covered boards, paper cover label. (32) pages.
Contains "Appropriateness" by Bradley with many illustrations. The hardbound version of these chapbooks are more difficult to find than the paperbound. Only minor wear.
Price: $ 125.00 other currencies Order nr. 35589

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Bradley, Will AMERICAN CHAP-BOOK, MARCH 1905
Jersey City American Type Founders Co. 1905 12mo. boards, paper spine label. (32) pages.
Contains "Cover Designs" by Bradley with many illustrations. One of the most interesting of these Chapbooks. Scarcer hardbound edition. Wear at spine ends.
Price: $ 100.00 other currencies Order nr. 16090

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(Bullen, henry Lewis) Mallison, David Walker HENRY LEWIS BULLEN AND THE TYPOGRAPHIC LIBRARY AND MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN TYPE FOUNDERS COMPANY
N.P. n.p. 1976 8vo. cloth 320 leaves
D.L.S dissertation, bound Xerox printed from microfilm. With listing of works cited.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 104883

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Clouse, Doug MACKELLAR, SMITHS & JORDAN: TYPOGRAPHIC TASTEMAKERS OF THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY.
New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press 2008 8.5 x 11 inches Hardcover, dust jacket. 176 pages
First edition. This is the first full-length study of the leading American type foundry of the nineteenth century. It is an interesting history of the foundry from both a business and a design point of view. The emphasis is on the design of the hundreds of typefaces that were produced by the foundry, from its inception in the 1860s until its merger with most other American foundries at the end of the century. The author describes (with many detailed photographic illustrations) how changing business conditions and technical improvements in typefounding interacted with changes in public taste to modify, over the decades, the appearance of the typefaces that Americans found in their publications. While this is a study of only one of many American foundries, in many ways MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan can stand as an exemplar of all the rest. It was the descendant of the first successful American type foundry, Binny and Ronaldson, started in Philadelphia in 1796. Extensive business records of the firm exist, as do scores of type specimen books and promotional publications of the foundry. All of these have been used extensively by the author. The scores of typefaces illustrated and described are considered as the ever-changing output of a corporation, with lesser emphasis on the individual creators of each typeface. At the turn of the twentieth century, taste turned away from the florid, ornamented style of the earlier decades. Mr. Clouse has shown in this well-written study that the earlier styles were very successful in their own time and should be judged on that basis. A completely illustrated appendix showing MS&J's patented typefaces is extremely helpful.
Price: $ 65.00 other currencies Order nr. 96669

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Cost, Patricia A. THE BENTONS, HOW AN AMERICAN FATHER AND SON CHANGED THE PRINTING INDUSTRY.
Rochester, NY RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press 2011 8vo stiff paper wrappers, dust jacket 400
First edition. The ease with which we can choose a typeface today from a plethora of options to fit a particular need is something we may take for granted, but it is possible only because of the tremendous amount of labor and ingenuity that came before. The story of the lives and work of Linn Boyd Benton and Morris Fuller Benton is an important chapter in the history of type, recalling a time in American history when men quietly worked at developing and improving mechanical technologies that they thought would continue evolving incrementally into the future.

Foreword by Matthew Carter.

Patricia Cost began researching the Bentons in the early 1980s. The results of her efforts were initially published as a masters thesis at Rochester Institute of Technology and generated inquiries from around the world since, due to the nature of their work and to their own reticence, the Bentons had remained mostly unknown. Her book incorporates further research and contains a comprehensive listing of Morris Bentons typefaces.
Price: $ 24.95 other currencies Order nr. 105927

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(Type Specimens) AMERICAN TYPE FOUNDERS PACK MY BOX WITH.
N.P. ATF-Davidson n.d. Broadside, 10 by 14 inches
Illustrates type specimens and ornaments. Designed for ATF-Davidson. Notation "Print '80 by Phil Hamilton." Sticker "Proudly made in the USA, N A Graphics" attached.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 110030

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(Type Specimens) ATF. ATF STYLE BOOK ON BULMER BY GEORGE F. TRENHOLM..
(Elizabeth, NJ American Type Founders) n.d. 4to self paper wrappers (8) pages.
Specimens of advertisements using Bulmer type face. Includes its history, dating back to the 1780s, with a biographical sketch of the author.
Price: $ 30.00 other currencies Order nr. 109137

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(Type Specimens) ATF. BERNHARD MODERN BOLD AND BOLD ITALIC
Elizabeth, NJ ATF n.d. small 4to. self paper wrappers. (8) pages.
Printed in black and different shades of orange. Examples of use in advertising shown. "In 1937 several characters of Bernhard Booklet and Italic (q.v.) were redrawn by Lucian Berhard, the original designer, at the request of ATF, and it was reissued as Bernhard Modern Roman and Italic. In 1938 Berhnard Modern Bold and Italic were added, also drawn by Bernhard." McGrew, American Metal Type Faces, page 33.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 109484

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(Type Specimens) ATF. BULMER ROMAN.
Elizabeth, NJ American Type Foundry n.d. broadside (8 1/2 x 11 inches) printed on both sides.
Series Number 497 issued by ATF. Printed in two colors. "Adapted by Morris Benton from a face cut about 1790 by William Martin for William Bulmer and the Shakespeare Press in London." McGrew, American Metal Type Faces, page 55.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 109493

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(Type Specimens) ATF. BULMER ROMAN AND BULMER ITALIC, FROM THE TYPES USED BY W. BULMER AT THE SHAKESPEARE PRESS, 1790-1819.
Elizabeth, NJ American Type Foundry n.d. (after 1933) small 4to. self paper wrappers. (8) pages.
With a number of woodcuts and other illustrations. "Adapted by Morris Benton from a face cut about 1790 by William Martin for William Bulmer and the Shakespeare Press in London." McGrew, American Metal Type Faces, page 55. Tiny chip out of bottom of front cover. Well preserved.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 38316

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(Type Specimens) ATF. COMBINATION MONOGRAM LETTERS FOR PRINTING PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE STATIONERY.
N.P. American Type Founders Co. n.d. (20th century) small 4to. self paper wrappers. (28) pages.
Printed in a number of different colors and containing six tipped-in examples of printed stationery. Spot on front cover which has extended into the first two leaves.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 22364

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(Type Specimens) ATF. THE ENTIRE LORD'S PRAYER ON A SINGLE TYPE.
Elizabeth (NJ) American Type Founders n.d. small 16mo. glassine envelope, folded sheet, cast type example loosely inserted.
The Lord's Prayer cast on type (1x1 mm) from an ATF matrix. This type example is only 4 points in size. You will need really good magnification to read this!
Price: $ 125.00 other currencies Order nr. 51997

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(Type Specimens) ATF. THE ENTIRE LORD'S PRAYER ON A SINGLE TYPE.
Elizabeth (NJ) American Type Founders n.d. small 16mo. glassine envelope, folded sheet, two cast type examples loosely inserted.
The Lord's Prayer cast on type from an ATF matrix. Two examples, the smallest being only 4 points in size. You will need really good magnification to read these! Explanatory sheet wrinkled and soiled.
Price: $ 175.00 other currencies Order nr. 116564

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(Type Specimens) ATF. GOUDY EXTRABOLD & GOUDY EXTRABOLD ITALIC, TWO PUBLICITY TYPES.
N.P. American Type Founders n.d. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (22) pages.
Printed in black and orange. With foldout.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 33110

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(Type Specimens) ATF. GRAYDA.
(Elizabeth, NJ American Type Foundry) n.d. (circa 1939) 4to. self paper wrappers. (4) pages.
Series Number 679 issued by ATF. "Grayda is an unusual and striking script designed by Frank H. Riley and introduction in 1939 by ATF." McGrew, American Metal Type Faces, page 171. Printed in two colors.
Price: $ 30.00 other currencies Order nr. 109497

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(Type Specimens) ATF. HERITAGE ... THE LASTING TYPE..
Elizabeth, NJ American Type Foundry n.d. (circa 1952) broadside (8 1/2 x 11 inches).
Series Number 702 issued by ATF. "Heritage is a carefully crafted contemporary script, designed for ATF by Walter H. McKay about 1952." McGrew, American Metal Type Faces, page 179. Was folded twice at one time leaving fold lines.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 109495

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(Type Specimens) ATF. LIBERTY SERIES, A BEAUTIFUL AND GRACEFUL ITALIC ....
(Elizabeth, NJ) American Type Foundry 1928 4to. self paper wrappers. (4) pages.
Series Number 511 issued by ATF. "Liberty was designed for ATF by Willard T. Sniffin in 1927, presumably to counter the importation of Bernhard Cursive, which it greatly resembles." McGrew, American Metal Type Faces, page 201. "Advance Proof" printed in corner of front cover. Bumped along top.
Price: $ 30.00 other currencies Order nr. 109494

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(Type Specimens) ATF. THE LOUVAINE FAMILY.
N.P. American Type Founders Company n.d. 9" by 12" broadside printed on two sides in two colors.
Samples of advertising using AMTYCO inks, the Louvaine style. This face was original cut for ATF by Morris Benton in 1928. Printed on both sides. Samples of electric flashes. Creased and torn near edges of crease.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 109174

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(Type Specimens) ATF. LYDIAN AND LYDIAN ITALIC.
N.P. American Type Founders n.d. small 4to. self paper wrappers. (8) pages.
Depicts the Lydian and Lydian Italic types designed by Warren Chappell in the late 1930s and early 1940s for ATF in various sample designs. Some are printed in two colors. Ink spot at bottom of back cover.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 36523

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