Some Specimen Proofs of Printing Types. Designed for Printers Use and made by The American Type Founders Company, United States America in the Year 1900.
USA, 1900. 7 x 12. (98) pages plus 8 smaller format specimens, each in wraps (10), (22), (18), (14)(18), (22), (4), (64). These were tipped-into the binding on hinges. Cloth gilt title on cover. Binding is very worn and disbound. A few specimens are fragile & chipped, but most are in good condition. Item #18920
American Type Founders (ATF) Co. was a business trust created in 1892 by the merger of 23 type foundries, representing about 85 percent of all type manufactured in the United States at the time. This is the first showing of ATF's new type faces designed by them. There are over 30 different designs for type and decorative material, including: Bradley Series, Satanick Series, Wayside Ornaments, Jenson Series (with the very rare A Compend of the Roman Letter in Reeds Old English Letterfounders),
Tipped-in are stand alone specimens for: Century Roman, Cushing Types, Satanick, Jenson Italic, Porson Greek, American Script, Type-Writer Types and Collection of Scripts. Rare. Only Columbia has a copy, from ATF's archives.
Price: $1,200.00