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.
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Fournier: a Classic 18th Century Roman & Italic Type | Monotype type specimen
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Lasso / Lasso Vet type specimen booklet | N. V. Lettergieterij, Amsterdam 1952
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William Thorowgood type specimen leaflets x 2 | Stephenson Blake / Caslon 1950s?
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Friedrich Hölderlin – Der Rhein Ein Gedicht | Monotype Corporation booklet, undated
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The Layton Type Book | Type Faces: C. E. Layton Typesetters & Printers c.1930s
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American Type Founders 2 x type specimen leaflets: Stymie Bold and Park Avenue
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William Caslon 1766–1966 | Wynkyn de Worde | Portfolio with nine inserts, 1966
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Huxley Vertical type specimen leaflet | American Type Founders | Walter Huxley, 1935
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Libra Medium and Light | Amsterdam Type Foundry type specimen | S.H. de Roos | Undated, presumed c.1938
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Christmas and New Year 1927-1928 Selected Types and Borders | H.W. Caslon & Co Ltd type specimen brochure
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Turn over a new leaf…type specimen leaflet for Will Carter’s new “leaf” design for Monotype. Printed by The Stellar Press, undated
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Medieval: An Intertype Face | Type specimen booklet | Intertype Corporation
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Intertype Headletter and Display type faces | Type specimen booklet, undated
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Monotype [Duke] Ellington – type specimen leaflet by Michael Harvey, 1990
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Additional One-Line Specimens of Linotype Faces | 1937 type specimen book
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Eine Gotische Schrift type specimen brochure | Weiss-Gotisch E.R. Weiss Bauersche Gießerei
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American Type Founders | Empire type specimen leaflet, 1937
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3 x Monotype type specimen leaflets | Student guides to typography
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Catalogue of an Exhibition of Type Specimens 1918-1930 | Saint Bride, 1930
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Three ‘Monotype’ Scripts by Imre Reiner: Matura / Mercurius / Pepita | The Monotype Corporation type specimen leaflet
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Egmont Light and Medium | Type specimen booklet Intertype, Slough | Sjoerd Hendrik de Roos
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Les Caractères de Civilité Spécimens des Lettres Françoises | Published by Johannes Enschedé en Zonen, Haarlem, 1926
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Baskerville for Linotype composition | Fold-out type specimen sheet
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Thorne Shaded type specimen brochure | Stephenson, Blake & Co Ltd, 1938
Regular price £43.00 GBPRegular priceUnit price / perSale price £43.00 GBP
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