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.

Bernhard-Schönschrift zart und kräftig type specimen folder and inserts | design by Lucian Bernhard | Bauersche Giesserei, undated

Bernhard-Schönschrift zart und kräftig type specimen folder and inserts | design by Lucian Bernhard | Bauersche Giesserei, undated

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Lumitype Type Faces | Butler & Tanner Ltd, The Selwood Printing Works, Frome type specimen booklet | 1960s?

Lumitype Type Faces | Butler & Tanner Ltd, The Selwood Printing Works, Frome type specimen booklet | 1960s?

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The Folio family – designed by Dr K.F. Bauer and Walter Baum, type specimen leaflet | Bauer Type Foundry / Soldans Limited, undated

The Folio family – designed by Dr K.F. Bauer and Walter Baum, type specimen leaflet | Bauer Type Foundry / Soldans Limited, undated

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A short list shewing Types and decorative Borders with stock blocks and Devices used by the Westerham Press | The Westerham Press, 1951

A short list shewing Types and decorative Borders with stock blocks and Devices used by the Westerham Press | The Westerham Press, 1951

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Folio Medium Extended Bauer Type Foundry designed by Dr Konrad F. Bauer and Walter Baum | Soldans Ltd, undated

Folio Medium Extended Bauer Type Foundry designed by Dr Konrad F. Bauer and Walter Baum | Soldans Ltd, undated

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Index to Classified Lists of Monotype Special Matrices | Folder & type specimens

Index to Classified Lists of Monotype Special Matrices | Folder & type specimens

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ABCD Caines Type Faces | Type specimen book | W. S. Caines, 1950

ABCD Caines Type Faces | Type specimen book | W. S. Caines, 1950

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Small type specimen leaflet | Deberny et Peignot, undated

Small type specimen leaflet | Deberny et Peignot, undated

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Presenting Lectura: Harris-Intertype type specimen booklet on the book page and the magazine page | Dick Dooijes design | undated 1960s?

Presenting Lectura: Harris-Intertype type specimen booklet on the book page and the magazine page | Dick Dooijes design | undated 1960s?

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Ludlow Karnak Obelisk | Ludlow Typograph Company type specimen leaflet, undated

Ludlow Karnak Obelisk | Ludlow Typograph Company type specimen leaflet, undated

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Folio – schmal mager, schmal halbfett | Type specimen folder and ephemera | Bauersche Giesserei

Folio – schmal mager, schmal halbfett | Type specimen folder and ephemera | Bauersche Giesserei

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Beton type specimen brochure | Bauersche (Bauer) Giesserei, Frankfurt Am Main

Beton type specimen brochure | Bauersche (Bauer) Giesserei, Frankfurt Am Main

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Divertissements Typographiques 2 | Deberny & Peignot / Soldans | Maximilien Vox

Divertissements Typographiques 2 | Deberny & Peignot / Soldans | Maximilien Vox

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Elegance Type specimen folder | Ludwig & Mayer, Frankfurt | Karlgeorg Hoefer c.1968

Elegance Type specimen folder | Ludwig & Mayer, Frankfurt | Karlgeorg Hoefer c.1968

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Bookface type specimen booklet. Intertype Corporation, New York undated

Bookface type specimen booklet. Intertype Corporation, New York undated

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Type specimen leaflet New Clarendon with Bold Series 618 | text by James Mosley | Monotype Corporation, undated

Type specimen leaflet New Clarendon with Bold Series 618 | text by James Mosley | Monotype Corporation, undated

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Typotips | Concertina leaflet Gesellschaft für Typographie und Saltztechnik GMBH, undated

Typotips | Concertina leaflet Gesellschaft für Typographie und Saltztechnik GMBH, undated

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Alphabet in Type LCC type specimen booklet | Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1958

Alphabet in Type LCC type specimen booklet | Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1958

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Card Founts of Printing Types from Stephenson Blake | Type specimen booklet

Card Founts of Printing Types from Stephenson Blake | Type specimen booklet

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A Synopsis of Type Faces in Use at Laytons | Type specimen book, 1930s?

A Synopsis of Type Faces in Use at Laytons | Type specimen book, 1930s?

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Broadsides and specimens of printing of the XV & XVI centuries | A. Rosenthal, 1941

Broadsides and specimens of printing of the XV & XVI centuries | A. Rosenthal, 1941

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Deberny & Peignot ‘SPHINX’ type specimen leaflet for Soldans Limited c.1925?

Deberny & Peignot ‘SPHINX’ type specimen leaflet for Soldans Limited c.1925?

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Types on Anglo-American point-system | D. Stempel AG / Arnold Cook Ltd

Types on Anglo-American point-system | D. Stempel AG / Arnold Cook Ltd

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Bodoni type specimen brochure | Typefoundry Amsterdam 1950s?

Bodoni type specimen brochure | Typefoundry Amsterdam 1950s?

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