Specimen Book (30 results)

Condition: Very Good. Attenuated specimen book of Monotype faces in 6 to 12 point sizes including, Baskerville, Bembo, Bodoni, Caslon, Clarendon, Egyptian, Ehrhardt, Fournier, Garamond, Gill, Gloucester, Grotesque, Imprint, Latin, Old Style, Plantin, Sabon, Scotch, Times, Typewriter, Univers, Van Dijck, Walbaum. Limp red cloth c…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. South Hadley Falls, MA: Hampshire Paper Company, 1930. Paper specimen book, ca. 1930, for Dartford Bond papers manufactured by Hampahire Paper Company (trademark for this paper was taken over by Byron Weston Co. of Dalton, MA in 1949. Illustrated h…

Hardcover. Condition: 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, soun…

Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. [n.p, n.d., ca. 1900?] [33 p.], original wrappers, cover-title, 2 tipped in specimens of letter sheets with Japanese print borders in colour, one of which is stamped, "Jin & Tamura, 72 Cordova St., Vancouver, B.C." Some damp staining, generally very good. The blank fly-leaf is stamped, "Compliment…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Half cream cloth with paper-covered sides, cover label, large 4to., 71 four-page specimen sheets each with a printed page and a description of the paper. One of 500 numbered copies of the second edition prepared for the American friends of Canson. Four page introduction and history of the company…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 46 leaves of type specimens, done in large sizes, mostly grotesques. 80 leaves of blocks, some full-page, some colour. The block feature various patterns, fruit, fish, shoes, fashion, cakes, dogs, etc). Grey card wrappers, titled in plum, stud-bound. Rare. A near fine copy. Not list…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Livre pour un petit garçon bien sage, imprimé par Jules Didot aîné, en trente caractères; depuis les plus gros et les plus simples, jusqu'aux plus petits et aux plus compliqués, orné de douze estampes coloriées par Mr et Me Colin, et Mr Aubry, et d'une grande quantité de politypages.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Philadelphia, New York, Boston: Dill & Collins Co. Paper Makers, 1918. First edition, 1918. Book of graphic art by American designers as printed on specimens of Dill & Collins papers. Beautiful presentation, with full page color plates, tipped on samples, decorative initials, etc.,…

28pp., landscape 12mo, printed on rectos only of 28 leaves. Dimensions 21 x 15 cm. In brown card wraps with brown cloth tape spine over staples. In fair condition, on aged thick paper, with foxing to title leaf, and damp staining at foot of first and last few pages. Printed decorative border on front cover, with same border in b…

First Edition. HAPPY THOUGHT & GLEAMINGS FROM SHAKESPEARE & AESOP AND APPLICATIONS, Dempsey & Carroll, 1882, first edition, wear to lower front corner tip, else just about a vg copy in gold-gilt stamped cloth with gold-gilt page edges. A printers specimen book in both color and black & white. Inscribed by the firm on the f.e.p.…

Revised Edition. Attractive specimen book from Wendell Wilbur Fish, a native of Bakersfield, who in 1920 opened his first office in L.A. becoming one of the earliest "advertising typographers" in the area. In The Pacific Printer and Publisher,October 1922, we find a review of some of Fish's work: "[Fish]. has made a special stud…

Most unpaginated, though each of the 11 almanacs ~ 40 pp. Yellow printed wrappers for each. Publisher "Specimen Copies" leaflet tipped-in to ffep. Illustrated with cuts. 8vo. 8" x 5-1/8" Ayer an enterprising young druggist who hailed from Groton, CT. By his mid-to-late 20s he owned his own business, and in 1843 he introduced Che…

A fine early twentieth-century example of a nursery specimen book, produced in this case by Vredenburg & Co. of Rochester for Hiram H. Gurney & Co. Gurney & Co., based in Auburn, Me., received horticultural orders through a network of agents who used such specimen books in their canvassing. This book highlights the printing comp…

Bennekom/ Amsterdam, G. Schreuders, n.d. (1907), (4) text-pages and 54 coloured, monochrome and b/w specimen-plates designed by K. van Leeuwen, lithography by "Typ. Amst. Boek- en Steendrukkerij v/h Ellerman, Harms & Co., loose as issued in original clothbacked board portfolio with cloth ties, decorated in red, yellow and brown…

An extensive nursery sample book, displaying fruits and flowering shrubs in a series of chromolithographic and pochoir stenciled plates. The plates are by two Rochester firms, J.W. Thompson and Stecher. Several of the chromolithographs are dated copyright 1888. The Thompson firm was active from 1876 to 1891. The handsome color p…

A specimen book of fruits and flowers compiled for the Chase Brothers Nursery Company of Rochester, consisting of handsome chromolithograph plates printed primarily by the Mensing & Stecher Co. and its successor, Stecher Lithography Company. Rochester was a hot spot for nurseries in the late 19th century. There is no titlepage,…

The plates are primarily printed with pochoir and stenciling, in a style typical of the early work of the Thompson firm, which was active from 1876 to 1891. Books such as this were used to sell fruit trees and shrubs, displaying the handsome fruits in vibrant colors. This volume is comprised primarily of apples, with several pla…

Salesman's specimen book for the Rochester Nursery Co., advertising a wide selection of apples, plums, grapes, trees, roses, and several varieties of berry, all shown in eighty-two full color plates. The book is marked as "No. 101" on the inside of the front cover. A nice example of chromolithographic fruit plates. Oblong. Origi…

Salesman's nursery sample book containing 146 chromolithographic for over a dozen types of plants, including many varieties of fruits and flowers. This book offers an extensive selection of apples, peaches, grapes, roses, and trees, among other things. A nice example. Contemporary leather wallet-style binding; leaves in three tr…

Extensive salesman's nursery specimen book from the Hoopes Bro. & Thomas Company nursery of West Chester, Pennsylvania, containing one hundred twelve chromolithographic plates. This book contains a mixture of plates, primarily from the Vredenburg and Rochester Lithograph Companies, both located in Rochester, New York. The plates…

An extensive album of Rochester fruit plates, in a nursery specimen book for the Chautauqua Nursery Co. of Portland, New York, displaying a wide array of fruits, including many varieties of grapes, as well as trees, roses, and other flowers. Although there is no titlepage, as typical with these books, there is a printed label on…

Condition: very good. n.p. (Osaka?) 190-? 26x39cm; later makeshift card binding that appears to be from a printer; 76 colour lithographs. Definite signs of use, occasional tears but nothing too serious. These are rare. Specimen hikifuda do float around but this is because busy fingers have dismembered every sample book they can…

Condition: very good. Osaka c1902. 25x37cm original string tied wrappers, title label; 60 colour lithographs. Some minor signs of use, stains and blotches; a remarkably good copy. Now this is rare. Specimen hikifuda do float around but this is because busy fingers have dismembered every sample book they can find. I knew they onc…