Type Faces Border Designs Typecast, First Edition (4 results)

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.

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.