Type specimen (62 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. Blue wrappers, decorated in red, green and white. A fine copy. 'Much like Optima, character strokes are stressed and have a slight flare. As in other Usherwood designs, the ascenders are slightly taller than the capitals. The italic combines the forms of an inclined roman and a true cursive.'.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. Green paper wrappers titled in blue and white. A fine copy. The ITC adaptation of Rudolf Koch's famouus design of 1927, has been redesigned with shorter ascenders to all lower case characters and adjusting several others.

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. Grey paper wrappers titled in red, blue and sage-green. A fine copy. A highly stylized roman typeface designed by Dick Isbell and Jerry Campbell of Detroit, Michigan. With unusual arches and curves it is best suited for advertising and publication purposes. Displayed in a full range of weights. …

Brown paper wrappers, titled in white and green. A fine copy. An unusual widely-curved sans serif with a forward slant designed for film typography. The inspiration for ITC Eras was Greek stone-cut lapidary letters and Roman capitals. It was created by Albert Boton in collaboration with Albert Hollenstein.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Blue and white paper wrappers, titled in colours. A near fine copy. Designed by Jovica Veljovic.

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. Printed on pale blue wove paper and sewn into grey printed card covers, cut flush. A fine copy. Specimens of Bembo, Imprint, Centur, Lutetia, Greek and music types, with Garamond loosely inserted.

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. Yellow wrappers titled in green and black. A near fine copy. Designed by Ray Baker. An interesting face that "fills the gap between serif and sans serif", and chiefly designed for advertising and publication graphics.

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. Purple wrappers, titled in orange and white. A near fine copy. Designed by Ray Baker. The major attribute of Newtext is space saving, via minus leading, That is, a letter with a 9 point width and legibility sets on an 8 point body.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Wrappers in blue and white, titled in red. A very good to fine copy. The second typeface designed by Jovica Velijovic. 'It offers a family which blends classic proportions with the grace and charm of a calligraphic style'. There is something of Times Roman about it.…

Grey wrappers titled in black. Folio, pp.6 title &c, and 20 illustrated leaves printed on one side only. Small faint mark to corner of upper cover, else excellent. ** Facsimile of Matthew Searsâ 1825 Specimen : one of the earliest English catalogues of stock illustrative blocks, and stock blocks of richly ornamented letterforms for posters. **** To confirm availability before ordering, please click the link Ask Bookseller A Question.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. 2nd Edition. Blue paper wrappers, titled in yellow and white. A fine copy. This specimen completes the very interesting Tiffany family, designed by Ed Benguiat and initially offered by ITC in roman in 1974. ITC Tiffany is a true cut italic, not an oblique or slanted design made from roman counterparts. ITC Tiffany is a blend of Ronaldson (MacKellar, Smiths and Jordan, 1884) and Caxton (American Type Founders, some twenty years later). Small caps are also included in this booklet.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Printed in green and black, decorations, facsimiles and alphabets. Stapled into decorative wrappers. Slightly soiled. A very good copy. A revival of the nineteenth-century fat faces cut by the English type-founder Robert Thorne.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Boston: Machine Composition Company: The Composing Room of New England, 1941. 1941 type specimen book in blue cloth lettered in gilt, tabbed sections separated by color dividers, 11" tall. Pockets inside front and rear covers are empty. Soem rubbing to the extremities, good hinges, sound text block, clean pages with no names or other markings. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. Title-page in red and black. Sewn into semi-stiff green card covers, printed in red. Linotype Juliana broadside loosely inserted. A fine copy. Designed by S.L. Hartz.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Printed in blue and black with examples of use. Corded into blue card wrappers titled in black with a decoration in brown. A very good copy. A set of bold, condensed capitals with stubby serifs with white gaps in some strokes.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Semi-stiff two toned wrappers titled in brown. A very good copy. Uncommon.

Folio, gilt cloth. C.pp56, fine. Handsomely produced in red & black throughout. **** To confirm availability before ordering, please click the link Ask Bookseller A Question.

8vo, 98pp., of specimens, spiral binding, original printed stiff wrappers.

8vo, xii, 161pp., of specimens, original green printed wrappers, a fine copy. Provenance: From the private press reference library of David Chambers (1930-2025), with his bookplate.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Printed on handmade paper, decorated with printers' ornaments, specimen pages of bookwork ruled in blue. Blue grained cloth, gilt on spine and upper board, edges uncut. A very good copy indeed A good, if conservative, selection done under the typographical advice of Leonard Jay. Less usual types in the display include, Mazarin, Cameo and Eric Jill [sic] Sans.…

Attractively printed in black and red with use of decorative borders; green paper covers, titled in black. A fine copy.

Tall 4to, [72]pp., original printed wrappers. Provenance: From the private press reference library of David Chambers (1930-2025), with his bookplate.

Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1970. 174 pp. Orig. blue plastic wrappers with gilt lettering. 8vo. An overview of the extensive Latin, Oriental, and specialized monotype / intertype typefaces utilized by Brill Printers.

Groningen, Triona Pers, 1994. [10] pp. Col. type specimen. Orig. softcover (light blue wrappers). Published in a limited edition of 65 numbered copies. This is nr. 14 of the 55 copies of the standard edition.

Small 8vo, 60 leaves, original printed wrappers. Reprint of the 1835 edition.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. Very handsomely printed in red and black on hand-made paper. Full linen, spine titled in gilt, upper board blocked in gilt. A fine copy. Displays almost seventy faces, both for machine and hand composition.

Oblong halfcloth, rope binding, 106 p. -good.-(Some light rust on the cover and the first pages, but otherwise the book is in fine condition.).

Groningen, Triona Pers, 1993. [6] pp. Col. type specimen. Softcover.Numbered edition of 40 copies. This is nr. 16.

Groningen, Triona Pers, 1994. [10] pp. Col. type specimen. Orig. wrappers. (Ark Reeks, eerste deel.)Printed by Dick Ronner from wood and lead in a limited edition of 50 numbered copies (nr. 14).

[Amsterdam], N.V. Lettergieterij "Amsterdam" [.], [1951]. 124 pp. Ills. Orig. publisher's blind stamped brown cloth, lettered gilt to spine, gilt vignette to upper board. - Upper hinges broken. # Lane & Lommen 352.