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TYPE A 40-page specimen book of Wood Type from the Morgan Press. The book is soft-cover with a plastic spiral binding. This book is undated, but is described as "A First Showing of Wood Type Specimens." (Other similarly-bound, but larger publications are dated 1963.) |
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WOOD
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American Wood Type Mfg. Co. A 64-page paperback catalog from the American Wood Type Manufacturing Company. No date on the catalog, but an attached letter/price list is dated December 1938. |
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American Wood Type Mfg. Co. A 120-page paperback catalog from the American Wood Type Manufacturing Company -- from back when they were still located in Manhattan. No date, but it looks like something from the '60s. (It pre-dates zip-codes.) |
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THE BAUER TYPE Printed by the New York office of the German-based Bauer Typefoundry, this specimen book serves as a tool for specing type, and as a catalog for the foundry. Like many spec books, there aren't page numbers (only numbers within separate sections), and there is no date of publication. As best I can tell, the book was printed sometime between 1937 and 1943. This is based on the fact that Legend (designed by F. H. Ernst Schneidler) was introduced in 1937, and a date of 1943 was written in pen on the inside cover. |
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