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. READ MORE about DECORATIVE CAPITALS
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 50693
New York: Continental Typefounders Association, n.d. 4to. self paper wrappers. single sheet folded. Covers soiled. READ MORE about FLEX
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 52092
New York: Continental Typefounders, n.d. large broadside folded four times. Printed in two colors. READ MORE about GRECO BOLD
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 31067
Ipswich, UK: W.S. Cowell Ltd., (1952). small 4to. metal spiral binding, cloth, dust jacket. 74 pages. Well produced book printed in different colors on different colored paper stock. With presentation bookplate present although it was once taped to front free endpaper and is now detached with tape remnants present. Loosely inserted is a broadside entitled "Supplementary Sheets for A Book of Typefaces. 1954." Jacket soiled. READ MORE about A BOOK OF TYPEFACES, WITH SOME ILLUSTRATED EXAMPLES OF TEXT AND DISPLAY SETTING
Price: $55.00 Order nr. 4977
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. READ MORE about A SPECIMEN OF FAIRFIELD TYPE
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 31660
Bangor, Maine: Eastern Corporation, n.d. large broadside folded twice with explanatory text printed on heavy paper stock loosely inserted. Designed by Howard Coggeshall. READ MORE about A SPECIMEN SHEET SHOWING ALMOST ALL OF THE "LOST" GOUDY TYPES
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 23472
Bangor, Maine: Eastern Corporation, n.d. large broadside speciment sheet folded twice with explanatory sheet printed on heavy paper stock loosely inserted. Designed by Richard N. McArthur with information on him. READ MORE about THIS IS A SPECIMEN SHEET OF GRAYDA TYPE
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 31659
(Berkeley, CA: Emigre), n.d. 8vo. self paper wrappers. unpaginated. Texts by David Barringer. List of fonts and designers. A catalogue of items offered by Emigre. READ MORE about LITTLE BOOK OF LOVE LETTERS: THE EMIGRE TYPE CATALOG VOLUME I
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 131749
Nevada City, CA: Harold Berliner's Typefoundry, n.d. brochures, various sizes. Announcements from Berliner's. Include announcement of the Third edition of Type We Can Make, "News of the Shop," and specimens of the Zapf Civilité type face. In envelope. READ MORE about Publication Announcement by Harold Berliner Typefoundry
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 129644
Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1847. 4to. publisher's printed boards, later linen drop box. (ii), 65 pages. First edition. (Audin 14, Updike II, p.327, Burke 596). Presents typographic specimens from the Imprimerie Royale in more than thirty languages, including ancient Egyptian, Chinese, Armenian, Syriac, Arabic, Mongol, Tibetan, Russian, Runic, Anglo-Saxon, German (Fraktur), Javanese, and Gujarati. The two-page comparative table of Roman types shows those used by the Press from 1640 to 1846, with one font attributed to..... READ MORE about NOTICE SUR LES TYPES ÉTRANGERS DU SPÉCIMEN DE L'IMPRIMERIE ROYALE
Price: $650.00 Order nr. 65229
Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1847. 4to. original publisher's printed paper covered boards. (iv), 65 pages. First edition. (Audin 14, Updike II, p.327, Burke 596). Presents typographic specimens from the Imprimerie Royale in more than thirty languages, including ancient Egyptian, Chinese, Armenian, Syriac, Arabic, Mongol, Tibetan, Russian, Runic, Anglo-Saxon, German (Fraktur), Javanese, and Gujarati. The two-page comparative table of Roman types shows those used by the Press from 1640 to 1846, with one font attributed to Garamont..... READ MORE about NOTICE SUR LES TYPES ÉTRANGERS DU SPÉCIMEN DE L'IMPRIMERIE ROYALE
Price: $650.00 Order nr. 109513
N.P. ITC, (1987). small 4to. self paper wrappers. 35+(1) pages. Specimens of ITC Slimbach, created by Vincent Pacella, involved in many of ITC's releases and creator of display typestyles for Photo-Lettering, Inc., New York, and ITC Cushing. Pacella is the second ITC release by its Pacella. Includes descriptive information. READ MORE about ITC PACELLA
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 109664
Philadelphia: Lanston Monotype, 1935. 4to. stapled, self paper wrappers. (16) pages. Specimens of F. Goudy's "Deepdene" in lines, texts, and sample compositions. With a 3-page article on Goudy's home "Deepdene" in the Hudson Valley, and 5 photographs. READ MORE about DEEPDENE, A NEW TYPE FAMILY DRAWN BY FREDERIC W. GOUDY FOR THE MONOTYP E AND NAMED AFTER MR....
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 53338
(London: Central School of Arts and Crafts), n.d. folio. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. Specimen book of types held by C. & E. Layton. Three supplementary leaves loosely inserted. READ MORE about TYPE SPECIMEN BOOK
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 124261
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
(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
Leyland, Lancashire, England: Mould Type Foundry, n.d. 4to. cloth. 152, xxii, (8) pages. Table of contents on pastedowns, foreword, explanation of service and "conditions of business," price list. Engraved illustration of the company's plant. Some specimens in color. Tipped-in supplemental items throughout text. Covers rubbed and scuffed at edges. Light tanning near edges of text. READ MORE about SPECIMEN BOOK OF TYPE FACES RULES, BORDERS & ORNAMENTS
Price: $450.00 Order nr. 129524
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
(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
New York, NY: Plandome Press, n.d. 4to. cloth covered self paper wrappers with three metal screws. (ii), 232, (2) pages. Indices of equipment follows text. Includes fonts, borders, initials, and headbands. Covers soiled, chipped at edges. Pages near beginning of text creased at bottom fore-edge corner. Previous owner's bookplate on inside front cover. Light tanning near edges of text. READ MORE about PLANDOME PRESS TYPES
Price: $360.00 Order nr. 129525
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
Sturbridge, MA: Privately printed, 1986. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. Unpaginated. Second edition. A booklet of type specimens patterned after an example printed in 1810, containing alphabets, borders and ornaments. Near fine. READ MORE about SPECIMENS OF TYPES IN THE OLD STURBRIDGE VILLAGE PRINTING OFFICE
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 48438
