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Topic=TYPE SPECIMENS, SEVENTEENTH CENTURY


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Ferguson, W. Craig PICA ROMAN TYPE IN ELIZABETHAN ENGLAND.
Vermont Scolar Press (1989) 4to. cloth, dust jacket. (viii), 33, (190) pages.
First edition. An important study of the differences among letter forms used by Elizabethan printers. Covers the period from 1550, when punch-cutters first arrived in England, to 1610, when new Dutch faces started to flood the market. Well-illustrated, with 171 plates of original text pages.
Price: $ 28.00 other currencies Order nr. 24670

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Lane, John EARLY TYPE SPECIMENS IN THE PLANTIN-MORETUS MUSEUM, ANNOTATED DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SPECIMENS TO CA. 1850 (MOSTLY FROM THE LOW COUNTRIES AND FRANCE) WITH PRELIMINARY NOTES ON THE TYPEFOUNDRIES AND PRINTING OFFICES.
With a preface by Hendrik D.L. Vervliet New Castle and London Oak Knoll Press and The British Library 2004 8.5"x 11" Hardcover, dust jacket 352 pages.
First edition. The Plantin-Moretus Museum has one of the world's richest collections of type specimens, many surviving nowhere else. They include types by Garamont, Granjon, Van den Keere, Briot, Van Dyck, Kis, Fournier, Rosart, Gillé, Didot and many other masters from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century. Since the Plantin-Moretus printing office acquired most of the type specimens when new, moreover, the collection as a whole tells a story in a way that collections assembled piecemeal in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries cannot. Finally, the Museum's extraordinary archives help to document the origins of many specimens.
This first detailed catalogue of the Museum's specimens reports the styles and sizes of type shown, describes the structures and paper stocks, notes relations with other specimens in the collection and elsewhere, and provides references to literature on many of the individual types shown.
Preliminary notes on the type founders and printers who issued the specimens include chronologies of the foundries and information on the origins of their materials, sometimes supplemented with information about the history of the firms and the genealogy of the founders. Nearly all of the nineteen specimens illustrated at their original size appear here for the first time, and extensive indexes make this book a powerful reference tool for type specimen enthusiasts and printing historians. Contains fifteen illustrations and four rare facsimile specimen sheets inserted in the inside back cover. Co-published with The British Library.
Price: $ 95.00 other currencies Order nr. 117058

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Morison, Stanley THE ROMAN ITALIC & BLACK LETTER BEQUEATHED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD BY DR. JOHN FELL.
Oxford Printed for the Typophiles at the University Press 1951 small 8vo. cloth. 49, (3) pages.
Reprinting of the first edition which was limited to only 100 copies; the 26th chap book, limited to 475 copies. History of the Fell type and reproductions of some of the type and ornaments.
Price: $ 85.00 other currencies Order nr. 12800

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(Printing) CATALOGUE OF I. TYPEFOUNDERS' SPECIMENS.
London Birrell & Garnett 1972 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xii, 108 pages.
Reprint issued by Tony Appleton of the 1922 first edition, limited to 500 numbered copies. A useful reference book for the study of type specimens. Well preserved.
Price: $ 28.00 other currencies Order nr. 2914

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(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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Wroth, Lawrence C. THE FIRST WORK WITH AMERICAN TYPES.
Cambridge n.p. 1925 8vo. paper wrappers. 16 pages.
Reprinted from BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAYS; A TRIBUTE TO WILBERFORCE EAMES. Inscribed by Wroth on the front cover.
Price: $ 30.00 other currencies Order nr. 5138

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