Ronaldson Typefounders (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. One of 600 copies printed. La. 8vo. 25cm. 2 blank leaves, title, 12 leaves of specimens (2 folding) + 1 ( one page of notes, letterpress), 2 blank leaves. A nice collotype facsimile, undated, of the first typefounder's specimen book issued in America. 'In appearance the designs seem largely inspired from French sources. A few of them are like those shown in Pierres' collection of 1785. The general type of decoration in others is similar to cuts in the Gille specimen of 1808.' Updike II, 153-4. Orig. qtr.cloth, boards. V.g.…