A Specimen of Printing Types, by Fry and Steele.,ter=Founders to the Prince of Wales, bound with: Specimen of Metal Cast Ornaments, curiously adjusted to paper, by Edmund Fry and Isaac Steele, Letter-Founders to the Prince of Wales, Type Street, London.

Two works bound together. I. Type Specimen: 102 leaves including title & two advertisement leaves, all printed on rectos only; marginal tear in one leaf (well clear of text), a few edges singed, but generally well preserved and uncut with large margins. Mosley 118 locates 5 copies varying from 102 to108 leaves and the Cambridge copy of '84 leaves with the stubs of 17 leaves' which (like this copy) was bound up with the Specimen of Ornaments. A very good copy of this extremely scarce specimen which incorporates a large range of book & display fonts, Greeks, Hebrews & 17 other exotics; nine miniatures include Fry's Diamond ('the smallest Letter in the World. It gets in considerably more than the famous Dutch Diamond'); leaf of ship ornaments & 30 leaves of flowers, fancy rules and other ornaments with several fine full-page displays evidently assembled by Hazard of Bath (one dated 1793). II. Ornament Specimen: title, advert. & 15 specimen leaves of various sized ornaments numbered 1-89 but LACKING second leaf (ornaments 11-24) and 7 further devices cut from 6 leaves; printed on rectos only, well preserved, uncut with large margins. Ornament 85 is the Foundry device with cursive 'F&S' on pedestal within leaf arch, repeated on title with variant 'EF'monogram; ESTC records a further variant of 'FAC'. Mosley 119 locates 12 copies varying from 19 to 28 leaves. The two items bound together in modern boards. Type Ornament Fleuron Type Specimen.…