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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Tillotsons Specimen Book of Type Faces 1949 | Bookplate Peter C.G. Isaac
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Manuscript & Inscription Letters by Edward Johnston; 5 plates by Eric Gill 1950
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Type Fashions: 5 type specimen booklets | W.P Griffiths & Sons Old Bailey Press
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Bernhard Types | Type specimen leaflet | Soldans Ltd, London – late 1930s?
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Società Nebiolo Microgramma type specimens x 5 printer Wace and Co Ltd, undated
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British type specimens before 1831 by James Mosley, Occasional Publication No.14
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Type specimen Linotype Caledonia new edition July 1961
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Type specimen booklet Star Type Horsfall & Sons Birstall c.1968
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Nuova Serie Eurostile Nera Stretta compatta, Società Nebiolo | Type specimen leaflet | Aldo Novarese
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How To Select Type Faces – booklet with 6 folded inserts | Intertype Company
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Gracia - Typefoundry Amsterdam type specimen leaflet c.1952
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Reiner Script by Imre Reiner | Typefoundry Amsterdam type specimen booklet c.1952
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Intertype Language Faces | Reprinted from Intertype Condensed Specimen Book No. 2, 1946
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One–Line Specimens of Ludlow Typefaces, Rules, Ruleforme & Borders; | Odhams Press, 1930s?
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Symphonie type specimen booklet | Bauersche Giesserei | designer Imre Reiner, undated
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Chart of small capitals & related figures | The Fanfare Press type specimen | December 1947
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Type specimen booklet for Keyboard: a New Display Type | Stephenson Blake, undated
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Peignot Bold. Small type specimen leaflet | American Wood Type Manufacturing Co
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Beton Bold, Medium and Extra Bold | Intertype Corporation specimen booklet
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Beton Series by Heinrich Jost | Wesselhoeft/Soldans type specimen booklet
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[Lucian] Bernhard Roman Bold type specimen booklet | Frederic Wesselhoeft, undated
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Waverley: a New Intertype Typeface | Type specimen booklet, 1941?
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Le Naudin price list leaflet | Type specimens | Miller & Richard Letter Founders
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Leaflet A Collection of Borders & Decorative Material in use in the Printing Department Guildford School of Art, undated
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120 Monotype Display Faces | Type specimen booklet, undated
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Vincent Figgins Type Specimens 1801 and 1815 edited Berthold Wolpe | The Printing Historical Society, St Bride Institute, 1967 | ex-library Westminster Libraries
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Mercury and Mercury Light – two new script types | Stephenson Blake 1950s
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Type founts and sizes held at The Fanfare Press | Type specimen leaflet
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Type specimen leaflet 'Reiner Script' - Typefoundry Amsterdam | type design by Imre Reiner, undated, c. 1955
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Metropolis Bulletin Issue 1 | Edited by Reginald Hutchings | Metropolis Press, May 1937
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Eric Gill's Joanna Typeface | Letterpress ephemera sheet | Skelton's Press, 1981
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Keyboard and Keyboard Light | Stephenson Blake type specimen booklet
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Intertype De Vinne | Type specimen booklet | Presumably early 20th century
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Beton Medium Condensed & Bold Condensed type specimen leaflets | Soldans Ltd, 1930s?
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'Monotype’ Faces by Monotyping Service Limited | Type face brochure, undated
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A list of type specimens. The Bibliographical Society, London, 1942 | Harry Carter
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