Collection: Type Specimens

This amazing selection of hard-to-find vintage brochures, booklets and promotional material represents many of the world's leading type foundries and type designers.

Type Faces in use at The Curwen Press | Type specimen brochure 1930s/40s?

Type Faces in use at The Curwen Press | Type specimen brochure 1930s/40s?

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Type Faces in use at The Curwen Press | 1951 Type specimen brochure

Type Faces in use at The Curwen Press | 1951 Type specimen brochure

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Type Faces in use at the Curwen Press | 1954 type specimen booklet

Type Faces in use at the Curwen Press | 1954 type specimen booklet

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Playbill – a new-old type from Stephenson Blake | Type specimen leaflet

Playbill – a new-old type from Stephenson Blake | Type specimen leaflet

Regular price £48.00 GBP

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The Printed Word | Typography by Linotype type specimens | Linotype and Machinery

The Printed Word | Typography by Linotype type specimens | Linotype and Machinery

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Magnet | Type specimen leaflet | Ludwig & Mayer, Frankfurt | Arthur Murawski 1951

Magnet | Type specimen leaflet | Ludwig & Mayer, Frankfurt | Arthur Murawski 1951

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Superba type specimen booklet | Fonderie de Caractères Haas | design by Edmund Thiele, undated presumed to be 1940s

Superba type specimen booklet | Fonderie de Caractères Haas | design by Edmund Thiele, undated presumed to be 1940s

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Riscatype Catalogue of Popular Typefaces type specimen booklet | Yendall & Co Ltd Typefounders, 1950s?

Riscatype Catalogue of Popular Typefaces type specimen booklet | Yendall & Co Ltd Typefounders, 1950s?

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Folio Grotesk type specimen folder and inserts Bauersche Giesserei, Frankfurt undated

Folio Grotesk type specimen folder and inserts Bauersche Giesserei, Frankfurt undated

Regular price £345.00 GBP

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John Baskerville – Type Founder & Printer | Intertype Corporation, New York, 1939

John Baskerville – Type Founder & Printer | Intertype Corporation, New York, 1939

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Type specimen for Caratteri Nebiolo Torino design by Aldo Novarese undated

Type specimen for Caratteri Nebiolo Torino design by Aldo Novarese undated

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Bauer Beton type specimen booklet | Bauer Type Foundry Imre Reiner

Bauer Beton type specimen booklet | Bauer Type Foundry Imre Reiner

Regular price £80.00 GBP

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The Intertype Cheltonian Family | Advertising type face specimen booklet, 1930s?

The Intertype Cheltonian Family | Advertising type face specimen booklet, 1930s?

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Alphabet Headlines type specimen book produced by Alphabet Ltd, London

Alphabet Headlines type specimen book produced by Alphabet Ltd, London

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Slogan | Type specimen leatflet | Ludwig & Mayer, Frankfurt Helmut Matheis 1959

Slogan | Type specimen leatflet | Ludwig & Mayer, Frankfurt Helmut Matheis 1959

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Symphonie | Nach Entwüfen von Imre Reiner | Bauersche Giesserei | Type specimen folder and inserts

Symphonie | Nach Entwüfen von Imre Reiner | Bauersche Giesserei | Type specimen folder and inserts

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Typography Layout Kit | Mergenthaler Linotype Company, Brooklyn, New York, October 1927

Typography Layout Kit | Mergenthaler Linotype Company, Brooklyn, New York, October 1927

Regular price £165.00 GBP

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Types Ludwig & Mayer Tipos | Portfolio catalogue type specimens, probably 1950s

Types Ludwig & Mayer Tipos | Portfolio catalogue type specimens, probably 1950s

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Studio Bold - Typefoundry Amsterdam | Type specimen leaflet | Dolf Overbeek, 1954

Studio Bold - Typefoundry Amsterdam | Type specimen leaflet | Dolf Overbeek, 1954

Regular price £115.00 GBP

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Intertype-ABC | Intertype-Setzmaschinen GMBH type specimen booklet, undated presumed to date from 1950s | Bodoni, Garamond, Futura etc

Intertype-ABC | Intertype-Setzmaschinen GMBH type specimen booklet, undated presumed to date from 1950s | Bodoni, Garamond, Futura etc

Regular price £180.00 GBP

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Messe Grotesk Lichter Schnitt. Actiongesellschaft für Schriftgiesserei und Maschinenbau Offenbach Am Main type specimen booklet | design by Albert Auspurg c.1927

Messe Grotesk Lichter Schnitt. Actiongesellschaft für Schriftgiesserei und Maschinenbau Offenbach Am Main type specimen booklet | design by Albert Auspurg c.1927

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Atrax | Die Schrift für Titelzeilen | Type specimen | Bauer | Heinrich Jost 1926

Atrax | Die Schrift für Titelzeilen | Type specimen | Bauer | Heinrich Jost 1926

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Divertissements Typographiques Tome 1, Travaux De Ville | Deberny et Peignot type folder and ephemera

Divertissements Typographiques Tome 1, Travaux De Ville | Deberny et Peignot type folder and ephemera

Regular price £150.00 GBP

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Stephenson Blake type specimen leaflet | SB Types letters and words service, undated

Stephenson Blake type specimen leaflet | SB Types letters and words service, undated

Regular price £35.00 GBP

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