GILLIES GOTHIC.
New York: Bauer Type Foundry, Inc., n.d. (c1935). small 4to. paper wrappers. (4) pages. "Gillies Gothic," mostly in advertising compositions. Mid-30's. A fine copy. READ MORE about GILLIES GOTHIC
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 139638
New York: Bauer Type Foundry, Inc., n.d. (c1935). small 4to. paper wrappers. (4) pages. "Gillies Gothic," mostly in advertising compositions. Mid-30's. A fine copy. READ MORE about GILLIES GOTHIC
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 139638
New York: Bauer Alphabets Inc., n.d. large 8vo. stapled, stiff paper wrappers. (12) pages. Four variants of "Horizon," mostly in lines. Probably early 60's. A fine copy. READ MORE about HORIZON
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 52478
New York: Bauer Alphabets Inc., n.d. large 8vo. stapled, self paper wrappers. (8) pages. Mostly in specimens of lines. No date, probably 1950's. A fine copy. READ MORE about VENUS CONDENSED - LIGHT CONDENSED, BOLD CONDENSED, EXTRABOLD CONDENSED
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 52479
New York: Bauer Alphabets Inc., n.d. large 8vo. stapled, self paper wrappers. (12) pages. "Venus" extended and italic in light, medium and bold. 1950's. A fine copy. READ MORE about VENUS LIGHT EXTENDED, MEDIUM EXTENDED...MEDIUM ITALIC, BOLD ITALIC
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 52480
New York: Bauer Alphabets Inc., n.d. 4to. self paper wrappers. (16) pages. Showcases the Venus type family. Soiling to covers, else a very good copy. READ MORE about VENUS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 50737
New York: Bauer Alphabets Inc., n.d. 4to. self paper wrappers. (16) pages. Showcases the Venus type family. Soiling to covers, else a very good copy. READ MORE about VENUS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 140467
New York: Bauer Alphabets, n.d. (circa 1955). large 8vo. self stiff paper wrappers. (16) pages. Type specimen pamphlet for Weiss Roman in regular, bold and extrabold, Weiss Italics with and without swash capitals, and Weiss Initials, Series I, II, and III. With alphabets and text samples for Roman and Italics, alphabets for Initials. Not dated, but probably from the mid- or late-50's. READ MORE about WEISS ROMAN, WEISS ROMAN BOLD, WEISS EXTRABOLD, WEISS ITALICS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 50121
New York: Bauer Alphabets Inc., n.d. large 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (32) pages. Sixteen variants of the Folio typeface, in various sizes. Examples in alphabets, figures and text, with 2 examples of advertisements. READ MORE about FOLIO
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 50731
New York: Bauer Type Foundry, n.d. small 4to. portfolio containing 22 broadside advertising examples using Reiner's type. Interesting presentation. The 23rd example is the folder itself with text. Minor soiling, else a near fine copy. READ MORE about IMRE REINER'S CORVINUS
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 19561
New York: The Bauer Type Foundry, n.d. oblong 12mo. self paper wrappers. unpaginated. Leaflet describing type specimens designed by Maria Ballé. Specimens of three series: 54 point Electros, 66 point Electros and 84 point Electros. Samples of text. Printed in black and green. A fine copy. READ MORE about INITIALS DESIGNED BY MARIA BALLÉ
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 109128
Nevada City: Harold Berliner's Typefoundry, n.d.(1983?). 8vo. stapled, stiff paper wrappers. 40 pages. Two hundred twenty-five faces and variants for text, display and decoration, available from Berliner as types or for typesetting of customer's copy. A fine copy. Samples in one or several words. READ MORE about TYPES WE CAN MAKE
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 52923
New York, NY: The Bauer Type Foundry, n.d. 4to. paper portfolio. unpaginated. A portfolio of various type faces offered by Bauer including two price lists. Small tear at bottom of spine. Covers slightly tanned. READ MORE about BERNHARD TYPES
Price: $150.00 Order nr. 133600
(Meriden, CT: Meriden Grauvre Co., n.d.). 8vo. cloth-backed boards. 20 pages and two fold-out plates of the facsimile followed by one page of text. Limited to 600 copies. Bookplate of William A. Kittredge on front pastedown. Keepsake number 51. Some light soiling to covers, else very good. Facsimile of the first American type specimen book printed by Fry and Kammerer in Philadelphia for Binny & Ronaldson in 1809. With a one page comment on the..... READ MORE about SPECIMEN OF METAL ORNAMENTS CAST AT THE LETTER FOUNDERY OF BINNY & RONALDSON
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 114380
A Mort Hyman Composition. A Beal-Bensler-Doss-m-Bossed Original.
Rochester, NY: Rochester Institute of Technology, nd (ca 1968). 4to. one single staple, three-hole punched, unbound. 38 pages. A Mort Hyman Composition. A Beal-Bensler-Doss-m-Bossed Original. Light soiling to the covers. Minor dampstain to the corner not affecting the text. Printed on recto only. Very scarce. READ MORE about A BOOK OF TYPE SPECIMENS
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 139607
New York: Boro Typographers, Inc., (1969). 8vo. paperback. unpaginated, but hundreds of pages. Designed by William Hogarth. A near fine copy. READ MORE about BORDERS, ORNAMENTS, AND GRAPHIC ELEMENTS
Price: $17.50 Order nr. 139815
New York: Publishers Printing Company, the William Bradford Press, n.d. small 4to. cloth-backed boards. 35 pages. Printer's type specimen book produced to show work for this book auction house. Well preserved copy still in glassine jacket. READ MORE about TYPE & DECORATIVE MATERIAL USED IN THE PRODUCTION OF CATALOGUES FOR THE AMERICAN ART...
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 41043
Rochester: Press of the Good Mountain, 1974. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 36 pages. Compiled by Robert Bretz and Daniel Bullock. Descriptions including some annotation. A fine copy. READ MORE about AMERICAN TYPE SPECIMEN CATALOGUES IN THE MELBERT B. CARY, JR. GRAPHIC ARTS COLLECTION
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 19211
First supplement [of ten] bound in at the beginning. (pp.353-356). Two volumes bound in one as issued. George Bruce's Son, & Co.
New York: Geo. Bruce & Co., 1882, 1878. thick 4to. modern cloth spine with original cloth covers preserved, cloth spine label, rebound with modern pastedowns and endpapers. 353-356, Frontispiece, 352; 168 pages. First supplement [of ten] bound in at the beginning. (pp.353-356). Two volumes bound in one as issued. George Bruce's Son, & Co. Annenberg p.83; Bigmore & Wyman I,167. This specimen book contains either the 3rd (or 4th) appearance of DeVinne's important thesis on..... READ MORE about SPECIMENS OF PRINTING TYPES MADE AT BRUCE'S NEW-YORK TYPE-FOUNDRY, ESTABLISHED IN 1813. [With]...
Price: $3,000.00 Order nr. 139474
New York: Dover Publications, (1976). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (iv), 123 pages. Reprint of parts of the original. A fine copy. READ MORE about VICTORIAN FRAMES, BORDERS AND CUTS FROM THE 1882 TYPE CATALOG OF GEORGE BRUCE'S SON AND CO
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 43233
New York: George Bruce's Son & Company, (1977). oblong 12mo. paper wrappers. (16) pages. Facsimile edition of this specimen book with a two page introductory history by Duensing. A fine copy. This copy is inscribed by Robert Leslie. READ MORE about BRUCE'S PENMAN SCRIPTS HANDSOMEST, BEST, CHEAPEST
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 4303
N.P. Rochester Institute of Technology Department of Printing, n.d. 8vo. paper wrappers. 8 pages. With a guide to identifying the characteristics of Caslon Oldstyle. A fine copy. READ MORE about CASLON SPECIMEN BOOK
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 50763
Philadelphia, PA: Central Typesetting Co., n.d. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, spiral bound. (26), 61+(1) pages. Includes sections on comparative leading and comparative faces. Index. Covers lightly soiled and chipped at edges. READ MORE about MACHINE FACES
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 129470
Pittsburgh: Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1960. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (46) pages. Limited to 200 copies. Printed by hand on a Challange proof press in multiple colors, an effort which required over 20,000 hand turns by the young student pressmen. Covers slightly wrinkled along edges with light sunning to top edge of front and rear cover. Else fine. READ MORE about TYPES AT THE CHANTER PRESS
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 28006
Dayton, OH: Volk and Huxley & Craftsman Type, n.d. (but 1972). broadside (83 cm x 28 cm). An advertising poster printed by Volk & Huxley. Issued as an insert in Champion Papers' The Printing Salesman Herald, Book 30, Special Issue on Typography. On Chamption Papers "Camerata Text, Ivory". This poster features "...many fine typefaces...Fourteen of them are truly landmarks in the history of typography. In a real sense, they are typography's classic typefaces." The fourteen..... READ MORE about THE CLASSIC TYPEFACES
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 137124
Mount Vernon: A. Colish, Inc., n.d. narrow small 4to. stapled, stiff paper wrappers. (18) pages. Type specimen pamphlet listing 86 monotype and/or display (hand-set) typefaces with sizes available, 33 of which are illustrated with alphabets (upper and lower case, regular and italic, as appropriate). With an index listing additional types available. A fine copy. From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted. READ MORE about TYPES AVAILABLE
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 50124