Type specimens (20 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Very Good Clamshell Box. First American Edition. Brooklyn, NY: Mergenthaler Linotype Company, 1932. Softcover, 205 pages. Light edgewear, sound binding, clean pages, no names or other markings, mylar protected. Includes a custom clamshell case in very good condition, dark taupe cloth with black leather spine with paper spine label. First American Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good/Very Good Clamshell Box. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. …

Wrappers, spiral bound. First Edition. Nice copy.

Wrappers. Wrappers a little marked and worn, otherwise a very nice copy Presented to members of the Congress by Brooke Crutchley, Printer to the University. First Edition. Printed at the University Press, Cambridge.

8vo, 2 catalogues, 64; [28]pp., numerous specimens of type, original printed wrappers.

4to, viii, 107, [1]pp., facsimiles, cloth, d.w. Provenance: From the private press reference library of David Chambers (1930-2025), with his bookplate.

First edition, 4to, viii, 107, [1]pp., facsimiles, orig. printed wrappers bound-in, contemporary green cloth, signs of a label having been removed from base of spine.

Full brown buckram. First Edition. 97 specimens Printed at the Pelican Press 4to Fine copy.

4to, [10]pp., followed by 75 leaves of type specimens, original publishers blue cloth, lettered in gilt, a very nice copy.

Royal 8vo, xviii, 238pp., + 2 folding, original decorative cloth and edges.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. The first very handsomely printed in red and black on hand-made paper, the second printed on laid paper. Both in full linen, spines titled in gilt, upper boards blocked in gilt. Very good to fine condition. Alphabete displays almost seventy faces, both for machine and hand composition. Schriften is more by way of a list of available founts and does not give full display.…

88/100 COPIES, some printing in red or ochre, pp. [16], crown 8vo, original stapled wrappers, fine.

Royal 8vo, xvi, 920pp., specimens throughout, original green cloth with black decoration, a nice copy.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Limited Edition. A collection of individual type specimen leaflets mostly printed in black and reddish-brown on hand-made paper (some specially watermarked, but also many other stocks). Illustrated with photographic reproductions, wood-engravings or tipped-in line drawings. Blue paper-covered box, gilt with the press mark, canvas back with printed label. Edge of box a little rubbed, otherwise a fine copy. Produced with great zest and apparently very uncommon. Typefaces include: Mainzer Antiqua, Gavotte, Elisabeth-Antiqua, Euphorion, Memphis, Schadow-Antiqua, Shakespeare-Mediaval von Ch. H. Kleukens, Ornata, Unzial-type, Peter Jessen" Schrift (Rudolf Koch), Tiemann-Antiqua, Fichte-Fraktur, Marathon, and Faust-Antiqua. Several of the texts are from Goethe. …

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. [Benzelius, Eric (the younger) & Olof Celsius (the Elder) compilers]. Catalogus Centuriae Librorum Rarissimorum Manuscript. & partim Impressorum, Arabicorum, Persicorum, Turcicorum, Graecorum, Latinorum, &c. Qua anno MDCCV Bibliothecam Publicam Academiae Upsalensis auxit & exornavit Ioan. Gabr. Sparvenfeldius, S:ae R:ae a ceremoniis Legatorum publicis Primarius. Upsala, Joh[n]Henr[ik] Werner, 1706. 4to. [6] + 74p. Roman, italic, Arabic & Greek type. Engraved title vignette with floral & fruit motif, 1st text page with ornamental headpiece & initial.Untrimmed. Wrappers. Catalogue raisonné of the outstanding collection of oriental manuscripts and books donated to Upsala University Library in 1705 by the Swedish scholar Johan Gabriel Sparvenfeldt (1655-1727). The treasures were selected by him during extensive travels in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East, undertaken as part of a royal commission to search for source material on the history of Sweden. The Sparvenfeldt gift was the most significant single acquisition by Upsala University Library, already famous for its exceptional holdings of early Greek manuscripts at the time. The donation comprised fortyone codices in Arabic, Persian and Turkish, eight in Greek (including an 8th century text - one bought in Venice and the rest in Spain), one in Chinese, and twelve in Latin and western languages (including an Italian Bible of 1474). The fortyone printed books in exotic languages include titles in Arabic, an early Slavonic Bible, and two Chinese imprints (given to the donor in 1691 by the Philippe Couplet, Procurator of the China Jesuits in Rome). This is the earliest catalogue of the Upsala University collections and it is typographically the most remarkable, as it is set in roman, italic, Arabic and Greek type; The handsome, bold Arabic type apparent throughout, was cut for the German orientalist Peter Kirsten a century earlier see Smitskamp PO 113. Most if the Greek type occurs in the section on pp50 to 61. Edited by the distinguished scholars Eric Benzelius the Younger (1670-1756), the librarian, who had already made important acquisitions earlier, and Olof Celsius the Elder (1675-1743). A fine, fresh copy with its wide margins untrimmed and almost entirely uncut. Almquist, Sveriges bibliografiska litteratur förtecknad 2838; Bestermann 17 & 25.…

Small folio (252 x 336 mm). (1), 23, (1) ff. (lacking first blank). With engraved medallion headpiece to first leaf. Modern marbled boards with giltstamped green title label to upper cover. Only edition. - A set of congratulatory poems in forty-six languages to honour the visit of Gustaf III of Sweden to Rome. This multilingual album of type specimens is a remarkable showcase for the typographical versatility of the Propaganda Press in the later 18th century, shortly before the printing-house was "despoiled unmercifully" (Updike I, 183) in 1798 by the French Directory. Includes versions in Arabic, Armenian, Chaldaic, Chinese, Croatian, Classical and Modern Greek, Hebrew, Malabar, Persian, Serbian, Syrian, Tibetan, and Turkish. - Some browning and foxing throughout; a few edge flaws (with occasional loss of corner) repaired. A wide-margined copy. Rare; OCLC lists eight copies worldwide (six in U.S. research libraries). - OCLC 20273705.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Espinosa, Antonio. Muestras de los caracteres que se funden por direccion de D.Antonio Espinosa de Los Monteros y Abbadia, academico de la Real de San Fernando, uno de sus primeros pensionados, en matrices hechas enteramente por el mismo, con punziones, que igualmente prosigue trabajando hasta concluir un surtido completo.Madrid c1770. 8vo. [16] leaves with text on rectos only, each page surrounded by individual typographical border. Wrappers. Rare Spanish type specimen catalogue by the distinguished designer, founder and printer, Antonio Espinoza (1732-1812) from Murcia, creator of the elegant cursive type for the famous Ibarra edition of Sallust (1772). The catalogue presents a selection of available type specimens designed and cast by Espinosa at his foundry in Madrid. The cursive type faces are shown on leaves 4 and 6 (rectos), the last leaf (recto) contains samples of small type suitable for glosseries. The title page is reproduced in Hipolito Escobar, Historia illustrada del libro espanol, (Madrid 1994), p228. The author was one of the first members of the Royal Academy of Arts of San Fernando established in 1752 by King Fernando VI. As a printer Espinosa is celebrated for his grand topographical plan of Madrid (1769). Title lightly foxed with neat repair in blank margin, some minor traces of usages, otherwise in good condition. Palau 18415 (lists a copy with 24 leaves); Updike II, 81 ( remarkable. in that roman characters in some cases and italic in all have an extraordinary quality of penwork ).…

Single folio sheet printed on one-side only (450 x 610 mm), folded into 4 sections, specimen sheet reproducing 36 priced ornaments, numbered 72-107, within border of type ornaments, unfortunately one ornament has been excised. Audin, Livrets typographiques des fonderies françaises créées avant 1800, 178; OCLC locates 2 copies only (Newberry Library and Houghton Library, Harvard). …

Paris, Éditions des Cendres, 1992 (facs. de l'éd.1827). Folio oblong. xxxix pp. & 87,86 feuilles. Demi-toile. (coins lég. usés) - Colophon: Ex. no. 532 de '999 exemplaires, plus quelques-uns [.]'.

(Colophon: Paris, le 6 mars 1943). 4to. [ii],116 pp. en rouge et noir. Reliure à anneaux. (MANQUANT le devant de la couverture et 3 feuilles (faux-titre, titre, index); ex. usé; 1 feuille avec déchirure; 2 (?) feuilles détachées) - very rare: only 1 copy in Worldcat (BnF). Contient: Europe (ie. Futura); Antiques; Goliath étroit; Polyphème; Ramsés; Pharaon; Égyptienne; Jenson; Légendes; Elzevir; Garamont; Astrée; Nicolas-Cochin; Moreau-le-Jeune; Cheltenham; Della Robbia; Latins Noirs; Les Élancées; Auriol; Françaises Légères; Robur Noir; Clair-de-Lune large; Bodoni; Romain; Deberny; Sphinx; Niagara; Étoile; Banville; Écriture compacte; Gothiques; Caractères pour affiches; Monotype; Filets. Caractères de fonderies de l'École; Nebiolo, Warnery, Olive, et Deberny & Peignot (= la plupart). …

Paris, Librairie Paul Jammes / Éditions des Cendres, 2002. Large folio. 15,[1] pp. Avec 31 + 1 (5bis) planches (dont 14 dépl.), sous portefeuille. (portefeuille lég. usée et avec quelques tâches légères; coin inf. lég.heurté) / loose leaves in wrappers and portfolio. (portfolio a bit used and with a few light stains; inner, lower corner slightly bumped). Colophon: Printed in 275 copies (no. 1-175 'hors commerce' + 100 commercial copies). This is no. 188.…