Los Angeles: Los Angeles Type Founders, n.d. 8vo. self paper wrappers. unpaginated. Advertising catalogue includes illustrations of the firm's products. "The World's Largest Type Foundry." Price list laid in. Wrappers lightly soiled. READ MORE about LOS ANGELES TYPE
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 108459
Chicago, IL: Ludlow Typograph Company, n.d. 4to. self paper wrappers. (22) pages. Description of Ludlow's Bodoni type faces. READ MORE about LUDLOW BODONI
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 137777
Chicago, IL: Ludlow Typograph Company, n.d. 4to. self paper wrappers. (14) pages. Description of Ludlow's Script type faces. READ MORE about SCRIPT TYPEFACES
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 137776
Philadelphia: MacKellar, Smiths and Jordan, (1997). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (ii), 54 pages. A very scarce reprint of part of the MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan catalogue issued July 1869. A near fine copy. Includes typefaces offered by the company, corners, borders, other ornaments and musical scores. Publisher's preface to this printing by David Peat notes that the MacKellar firm was a descendant of Binny and Ronaldson, the first successful typefounder in the United States, established..... READ MORE about SPECIMENS OF PRINTING TYPES BORDERS, CUTS, RULES &c
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 109559
San Francisco: Mackenzie-Harris Corp. 1978. tall narrow 8vo. stiff paper wrapper. 95+(1) pages. A catalogue of all the type faces, ornaments and special characters available from this company at the time of publication. A fine copy. READ MORE about TYPE
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 45891
Brooklyn: Mergenthaler Linotype Co., 1933. large 8vo. stapled, self paper wrappers, three hole punch along margin. Linotype Granjon, Granjon Bold, and Granjon Italic in various sizes, with examples in alphabets, figures and texts. A fine copy. READ MORE about GRANJON
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 50738
New York: Mergenthaler Linotype Co., (1948). small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. viii, 1217-1418 pages. Supplement to Mergenthaler's specimen book. Near fine copy.Loosely inserted in a commorative bookplate of William Sihler. READ MORE about SPECIMEN BOOK LINOTYPE FACES, SUPPLEMENT NEW FACES
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 5021
Brooklyn: Mergenthaler Linotype Company, n.d. small 4to. self paper wrappers. (8) pages. WIth information on Ruzicka. READ MORE about LINOTYPE FAIRFIELD, A NEW TYPE FACE DESIGNED BY RUDOLPH RUZICKA
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 78967
Brooklyn, NY: Mergenthaler Linotype Company, n.d. 4to. self paper wrappers. 221-246, (2) pages. Supplement 2 to the company's "One-Line book." Updated catalogue of available typefaces. Covers lightly tanned, else near fine. READ MORE about REVISED INDEX AND ADDENDA TO ONE-LINE SPECIMEN BOOK
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 125205
New York: European Typefounders Inc., n.d. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (8) pages. Printed in colors. Includes Bold Condensed with Long Ascenders. Very good condition. READ MORE about MONDIAL: NEW ELEGANCE AND CLASSIC BEAUTY
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 137727
London: Monotype Corporation, n.d.(c1950). small 4to. sewn, self paper wrappers. (20) pages. Specimens mostly in texts for Spectrum, a roman bookface commissioned by Joh. Enschedé & Zonen and designed by Jan Van Krimpen, and originally meant for use in small folio Bibles. Near fine. READ MORE about SPECTRUM ROMAN AND ITALIC
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 53383
(Redhill, Surrey): Monotype, (1992). 23 x 12 inches. broadside. folded in three with the two outside panels being about an inch short of the middle panel creating an overlap effect. First edition of 300 copies printed for The Monotype Conference 1992. The newly drawn typeface for 1992 drew its inspiration from types used in Spain to create new text types of economical yet highly readable proportions, and with particularly handsome large display sizes , specifically..... READ MORE about COLUMBUS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 87724
N.P. Monotype, n.d. 4to. self paper wrappers. (8) pages. A selection of Monotype Dante type specimens.Loosely inserted in a commorative bookplate of William Sihler. READ MORE about DANTE
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 125432
Chicago: Neon Type Division, n.d. 4to. pamphlet. unpaginated. Brochure describing Solemnis, Fox and Derby, type faces made in Germany by Berthold Type Foundry, Berlin. Neon Type Divsion a subsidiary of Typefounders of Chicago, Castcraft Printing Supply, Inc. Listing of distributing agents in the USA. A fine copy. READ MORE about SOLEMNIS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 109131
North Pomfret, VT: Hamish Hamilton, (1980). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xii, 332 pages. New revised edition. Table of contents, acknowledgments, foreword by John Ryder, explanation of contents. Typefaces offered by Western Printing Services. Index of typefaces follows text. Dust jacket chipped at edges. READ MORE about THE NEW WESTERN TYPE BOOK: ANALYSED PAGE SPECIMENS OF MONOTYPE, LINOTYPE AND INTERTYPE FACES AND...
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 131448
Liverpool: P.P. Press, n.d. tall, narrow 4to. cloth with gilt. Two loosely laid-in booklets of additional specimens in addition to the bound in pages. Hinge loose. Cover worn at edges and corners, previous owner's stamp on front pastedown. READ MORE about SOME RECENT ADDITIONS TO THE TYPE FACES IN USE AT THE P.P. PRESS
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 87276
(Buffalo: P22 Type Foundry), 2000. square 12mo. self paper wrappers. 40 pages. Type faces offered by P22, including a number of eclectic items. Includes specialty fonts and other merchandise offered by the company. Table of contents, ordering information and form. READ MORE about P22 TYPE FOUNDRY: YEAR 2000 FONT SELECTION
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 115081
Baltimore, MD: J.H. Furst Company, (1953). 8vo. wrappers. 86 pages. Table of contents. Description of various typefaces. Near fine. From the reference collection of W. Thomas Taylor. From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted. READ MORE about A SPECIMEN BOOK OF TYPE STYLES
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 135623
(Silver Spring, MD: Phil's Fonts, 2002). oblong 16mo. self paper wrappers. 22, (2) pages. Catalogue featuring the Danish typeface FF Signa. With introductory comments and illustrations. READ MORE about FF SIGNA
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 122255
(Silver Spring, MD: Phil's Fonts, n.d. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 94, (2) pages. Text in English and Chinese. Vol. 1 to 40. 12 themes of photographic images available. With index. READ MORE about PHOTOALTO
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 122237
Honey Brook, PA: Quaker City Type Foundry, n.d. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 24 pages. Type faces offered by Quaker City. Fine condition. READ MORE about A SPECIMEN OF FACES FROM QUAKER CITY TYPE FOUNDRY
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 129404
Lancaster, PA: Rudisill and Company, n.d. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 63+(1) pages. Includes Monotype and Foundry type, as well as a section on rules, borders, and ornaments. READ MORE about TYPE SPECIMEN BOOKLET
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 129414
(Kalamazoo, MI): Sequoia Press, n.d., but after 1957. 4to. self paper wrappers, plastic bound. unpaginated. Demonstrates the use of plastic binding as well as showing acquisitions of type. Also includes paper specimens offered by Sequoia. READ MORE about OCCASIONAL NO. 9: BEING A SUPPLEMENT TO OUR TYPE SPECIMENS AND A REVIEW OF TECHNICAL AND DESIGN...
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 114803
Honey Brook, PA: Quaker City Type Foundry, 1979. 4to. stapled paper wrappers. 24 pages. A scarce type specimen featuring examples of type and ornamentation. Fine in original envelope. From the Thomas M. Whitehead Collection of Books About Books. READ MORE about A SPECIMEN OF FACES FROM QUAKER CITY TYPE FOUNDRY
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 137132
Frankfurt a.M. D. Stempel AG, n.d. (c1930). tall 12mo. paper wrappers. (12) pages. Specimens in text, compositions for Stempel's "Garamond" revival. A fine copy. READ MORE about GARAMOND, DIE ZEITLOS SCHONE SCHRIFT
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 53356
