Type Specimen Book: First Edition (35 results)

1st edition. Landscape 8vo. xiii + 156pp. Specimens of print. Original boards. Patterned d/w. with white title patch to spine, slightly rubbed. ISBN 0370304438 US$11.

1st edition. Landscape small 4to. xiii + 156pp. Original boards. Cream and maroon patterned d/w. with cream title patch to faded spine, some minor wear. ISBN 0370304438 US$12.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Without dust jacket (if issue. First Edition. A Duodecimo, 7 1/4" tall, 287 pages, green cloth, gilt titles. A very good minus, generally clean and sturdy hard cover first edition with minor shelf wear, but fading to cover cloth color at the back strip and light exterior soiling; hinges and binding sturdy, but spine slightly canted, paper moderately yellowed. Several paper have penciled check marks in the margins and "R.I.B." initialed at the bottom of the forward.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. NO INTERNATIONAL OR PRIORITY MAIL ORDERS PLEASE. Presumed first edition (no additional printings listed). 5-ring binder, simulated leather over flexible cardboard, 8x9 ½ x 2 inches, nonpaginated. Very good. Covers somewhat bent, some tape(? ) residue there, ¼ inch nick at lower corner of front joint, starting to lightly age yellow, otherwise tight, clean, paper crisp, unmarked. Trade catalogue (catalog) ; ephemera; books on books; publishing industry; typesetting; printing press.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 8vo, cloth-gilt, 287pp. Good: cloth rubbed and soiled, binding mildly cocked, hinges solid, text marred only occasionally by a pencil swipe; previous owner's stamp ("H.E. Cook") to the foot of the front cover.

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Copy previously owned by Vivian Ridler with his uninked embossed personalised stamp to front free endpaper. Vivian Ridler, CBE (2 October 1913-11 January 2009), ex-Faber executive was also a printer, typographer and scholar in Britain. He was Printer to the University of Oxford at Oxford University Press from 1958 until his retirement in 1978; and also established his own Perpetua Press. Vivian Ridler's complimentary copy with ephemera loosley inserted. Additional leaflet of 1981 Metal Type inserted. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 156 pages; Description: xiii, 156 p. : ill. ; 20 x 25 cm. Subject: Type and type-founding -- England -- Specimens. Phototypesetting.Alden Press. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 156 pages; Description: xiii, 156 p. : ill. ; 20 x 25 cm. Subjects: Alden Press. Type and type-founding--England--Specimens 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Copy previously owned by Vivian Ridler with his uninked embossed personalised stamp to front free endpaper. Vivian Ridler, CBE (2 October 1913-11 January 2009), ex-Faber executive was also a printer, typographer and scholar in Britain. He was Printer to the University of Oxford at Oxford University Press from 1958 until his retirement in 1978; and also established his own Perpetua Press. Vivian Ridler's complimentary copy with ephemera loosley inserted. Additional leaflet of 1981 Metal Type inserted. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 156 pages; Description: xiii, 156 p. : ill. ; 20 x 25 cm. Subject: Type and type-founding -- England -- Specimens. Phototypesetting.Alden Press. 1 Kg.…

Condition: Near Fine. First edition, first printing. EARLY-TWENTIETH-CENTURY TYPE FACES Trow Press, a New York printing and publishing house, evolved from Leavitt & Trow, one of the United States' first printing houses. The press handled extensive commercial printing, and as printers transitioned from bulky type face catalogues to specimen books reminiscent of works of art, this 1905 copy lands somewhere in the middle, featuring each type face the press offered. Lightly toned spine, gently rubbed extremities with touches of wear, owner inscription front pastedown, still near fine. Publisher's full green cloth, ruled and title stamped in gilt, decoratively blind stamped.…

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 156 pages; Description: xiii, 156 p. : ill. ; 20 x 25 cm. Subjects: Alden Press. Type and type-founding--England--Specimens 1 Kg.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. This is a well designed type specimen book displaying samples of type that was available from V&M Typographic in the 1970s. The displays are of their metal type library and should prove helpful to anyone interested in the selection of type from large typographers at that time. There is a one line sample of each face at the beginning of the book. Anyone interested in type in the pre-digital world of type should find this book of interest Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Oblong 4to. Red and cream cloth with gilt titles to spine and front board. xiii + 156pp.

Cloth, cover-title in gilt on contrasting panel within gilt frame,oblong 8vo, 20 x 25 cm, xiii, 156 pp, ills. Slight fingersoiling, otherwise Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Cream buckram, titled in gilt on the spine. Fine in like dust-jacket. Presentation copy: 'Xtopher [Christopher Bradshaw] from Hugh with greetings - an imperfectly bound copy of the house edition in a Bodley Head jacket from a temporarily imperfect author.'. Inscribed by Author(s).…

Paperback. Condition: New. 1st. This is a well designed type specimen book displaying samples of type that was available from VandM Typographic in the 1970s. The displays are of their metal type library and should prove helpful to anyone interested in the selection of type from large typographers at that time. There is a one line sample of each face at the beginning of the book. Anyone interested in type in the pre-digital world of type should find this book of interest.…

GREEN CLOTH. Condition: VERY GOOD++. *FIRST EDITION*. VI + 458 PAGES. GOLD GILT LETTERING ON SPINE. BOOKLET & 2 SIZE CARDS IN BACK POCKET. SLIGHT WEAR, BUT A NICE CLEAN STRONG TIGHT COPY. Size: QUARTO.

First Edition, oblong 4to, orig. cloth, d.w.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Printed in black with occasional use of pale blue, orange and illustration. Advertisements, ornaments and display. Notable for some nice inline and script types. Blue cloth, stamped and titled in gilt (a bit soiled at the front board). A very good copy. Typefaces include: Garaldians, De Roos, Empire. Nobel, Ideal News, Balloon, Hidalgo, Libra, Mistral, Reiner Script and others. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Typoe specimen Reference Book in fine cond Signed and Annotated on fep by Williamson. Inscribed by Author(s).

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, sound text block, clean pages with no names or other markings. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.…

First edition, 4to, xii, 458pp., leaflet and cards in pocket at rear, specimens throughout, original green cloth. Provenance: From the private press reference library of David Chambers (1930-2025), with his bookplate.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. This is a well designed type specimen book displaying samples of type that was available from V&M Typographic in the 1970s. The displays are of their metal type library and should prove helpful to anyone interested in the selection of type from large typographers at that time. There is a one line sample of each face at the beginning of the book. Anyone interested in type in the pre-digital world of type should find this book of interest Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 8vo. Printed on 120gsm. Conqueror White Wove. No. 81 of just 100 copies.Internally clean and without inscription. Bound in grey wrappers with illustration to upper wrapper. The head of the wrapper is sun-faded to the top 2cm. Otherwise a lovely copy of a SCARCE title. Samples of type. blocks borders and ornaments both black and coloured (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. One of 500 copies on Frankfurt paper with the title-page in blue and black. Dutch linen with printed label on spine. A fine copy.

Paperback. Condition: New. 1st. This is a well designed type specimen book displaying samples of type that was available from VandM Typographic in the 1970s. The displays are of their metal type library and should prove helpful to anyone interested in the selection of type from large typographers at that time. There is a one line sample of each face at the beginning of the book. Anyone interested in type in the pre-digital world of type should find this book of interest.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. This is a well designed type specimen book displaying samples of type that was available from V&M Typographic in the 1970s. The displays are of their metal type library and should prove helpful to anyone interested in the selection of type from large typographers at that time. There is a one line sample of each face at the beginning of the book. Anyone interested in type in the pre-digital world of type should find this book of interest Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Mylar Jacket. 1st Edition. Bound by Gray Parrot in natural Dutch linen over boards with printed paper label on spine. Original four-page publisher's prospectus laid in. In archival Mylar dust wrapper. 137, [1] pages. A conjoined facsimile reprint of the first book on printing in English, and the first English type specimen book. One of 500 copies printed by Henry Morris composed in Van Dijck types on Frankfurt paper with the title-page in blue and black. The first work is Richard Atkyns' 1664 work, THE ORIGIN AND GROWTH OF PRINTING, the first English book devoted to the subject of printing; the second is William Caslon's first English type specimen book (1764). Illustrated with specimens of printing types. Both books reproduced in facsimile in one volume. Carey S. Bliss who contributes the introductions to both books was curator of rare books at the Huntington Library and author of several books on printing history, private presses, etc. Facsimile of Atkyn's essay (London, 1664) (36 pages), and A Specimen of Printing Types (1764), with its numerous type illustrations. The introductory text was composed in Van Dijck types and printed on Frankfurt paper. The facsimiles, from 1664 and 1764 respectively, were printed on Mohawk Text by the Blair Printing Company.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo (tall). N.d., [ca. 1930s?] Orig. brown stiff card covers, screw post binding. Unpaged, with over 200 numbered pages of typefaces (some with supplements numbered and lettered (i.e., 48a-e). Rubbing to edges, wear and creasing to corners, light soiling and a few small spots of staining. 0.…

Two vols. 1st. - 4to. 220 pp. Title and section titles printed in colour on thick cover stock, typefaces throughout. Black pictorial cloth, Western motif cowboy riding typeface on front cover, silver Art Deco lettering (slight shelfwear); 2nd - 8vo. 81, [1] pp. Typeface alphabets throughout, self-printed black & silver softcovers (minor shelfwear), inserted into front pocket of Specimen book, NF set. First editions of both these excellent volumes on American type faces produced by the noted company during the 1930s. Western offered Linotype, Monotype, Ludlow, and Hand-set types, reproduction proofs, long wearing unconditionally guaranteed types, and other advantages towards their clients. The type specimens included hear encompass Scripts, Gothics, Spartans, Bodoni, Moderns, extensive special figures, and more. The Type Identifier lists over 400 different faces from ATF, Baltimore, Bauer, Continental, Intertype, Monotype, Ludlow, and other sources. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition thus. Name on front pastedown, else unmarked. Internally clean and bright. Rubbing and some fraying to cloth at ends of spine. Binding a little shaken but sturdy overall.