Type Faces Border Designs Typecast (11 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. A very good copy. The text is wholly unmarked, pristine, and the binding, which is sstitched wrappers, is bright and fresh in appearance. 24 pp. A sharp copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. No date, circa 1920s (?). Heavy wear to covers; spine crudely repaired with tape; many pages loose, but present; page edges spotted; damp stain to fore-edge of last 20 pages, mostly index.

Original cloth boards with blind tooled lettering and rules. , Size : 4to (191mm x 280mm), Illustrated profusely with various styles of typographical fonts and image designs. All pages are clean and crisp. A very good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Printed in black with much use of colour especially with the ornaments; black imitation leather, embossed and titled in blind, grey endpapers. Neat ownership signature. A very good copy indeed. The same as the famous Catalog 25 but without the machinery section. This was the last specimen book issued by Barnhart Brothers & Spindler.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 8vo (super). Black textured cloth. 532 pp., 7 pp. index. Rebacked, orig. backstrip laid down. Spine tilted, rubbing to extremities. Scuffing to edges of text block.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Printed in black with much use of colour especially with the ornaments; black imitation leather, embossed and titled in blind, grey endpapers. Inner hinges starting, excision to p.189 (De Vinne), head of spine frayed. A very good bright copy. Known as the 25 from the year in which it was produced, this is the finest specimen book ever done by BBS. It was produced under the general direction of Richard N. McArthur (formerly of the Keystone Type Foundry) who commissioned outside designers such as Will Ransom, Oswald Cooper, Carl S. Junge, George F. Trenholme and Ethel G. Hoyle to create new type faces and ornaments. The highlight of the catalogue is the first showing of Munder Venezian and Munder Bold, named in honour of Norman Munder of Baltimore, Dean of Printers of America during the 1910-1930 period.

Hardcover. 528, [4], 7 p. Index. Illustrations (some with color). With Price List of Job Type Fonts, etc, issue Sept. 1925 (11 p) laid in. Catalog; 25-A. Spine states "Type That Talk". Barnhard Brothers & Spindler were type founders and manufactures and merchants to printers. They had brand offices and sales offices in nine principal cities: Chicago, Washington, Kansas City, Saint Paul, Seattle, Saint Louis, Dallas, Omaha, and Vancouver, British Columbia as well as dealers convenient to all parts of the country. This compilation is a snapshot in time (the Roaring Twenties), and a snapshot of technology. Fair. No dust jacket as issued. Front board weak.

Cloth. Condition: Good +. nd (c. 1925), 528pp + index, well illus., Catalog 25-A, rear hinge starting, corners badly bumped, top & bottom of spinw well worn, sticker to frnt cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Catalog # 25 published by Barnhart Brothers & Spindler; unspecified date, though probably late 1920s; black embossed covers; catalog includes wide variety of printing machines and equipment as well as comprehensive examples of type styles and ornaments.

ed. hardback good condition in cloth with moderate wear - binding is a bit loose- 708 pages.

Quarto. 528, [12] pp. Hundreds of type faces illustrated. Numerous examples of tinted printing. Publisher's deeply embossed dark blue cloth, blue endpapers and edges. Two copies of the price list of Sept., 1925, laid in. Order from laid in. Bookplate. A very good copy with only minor rubbing to extremities.