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
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 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.
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.
Price: $950.00