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Book of type specimens : comprising a large variety of superior copper- mixed types, rules, borders, galleys, printing presses, electric-welded chases paper, and card cutters, wood goods, bookbinding machinery etc., together with vaulable information to the craft. Specimen book no. 9
- 1907
Chicago: Barnhart Bros. & Spindler
Available Contents
- [Cover]
- [Title Page]
- To the trade
- An historical sketch
- Point-line, point-set, point body, lining system
- General information
- Synopsis of body type
- Roman body and job type
- Old style body and job faces
- Modern body and job faces
- Circular, text and script faces
- German body and job faces
- Ornaments and borders
- Brass rule, plain and fancy rule in strips, labor-saving rule, column rules, head rules, cross rules, plain and fancy brass corners, ovals, circles, diamonds, dashes, braces cutting and scoring rules, etc.
- Miscellaneous, date lines, sub-heads, newspaper heads, news cuts, society emblems, vogue ornaments, wood rules, wood type
- Illustrated catalog and price list of printing material machinery and supplies
- Telegraph code
- Index to superior copper-mixed type, ornaments, borders and brass rule
- Index of presses, printing material, etc.
- [Cover]