Some Early Type Specimen Books of England, Holland, France, Italy, and Germany (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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This edition is illustrated with severa portraits - Coster, the reputed inventor of Printing, J unius, the Historian, John Enschede, and Fleischman, the celebrated punch cutter. There is a long preface recounting the origin of the foundry, and we meet in the specimen an evident bid for foreign orders, the names of the founts being placed above each specimen in Dutch, German, French, and English.

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