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Type Specimen Books Available Online

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Pre-digital type specimen books from foundries and other sources that are digitized (scanned or photographed) and viewable online. This list is a starting point for a future compilation on Typographica.org, where the books can be organized by foundry and date, along with other typographically pertinent information that is not shown in Open Library lists.

Thanks to Joan Mas, Magda, and Julián Moncada, whose lists are the main foundation for this one. Other sources include Circuitous Root, Hans Reichardt, and Opentype.info.

For lettering manuals, see this list.

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  • Cover of: American specimen book of type styles: complete catalogue of printing machinery and printing supplies. 1912.

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  • Cover of: Hauptprobe in gedrängter Form der Bauerschen Giesserei, Frankfurt am Main: Filialen in Barcelona und Madrid, A. Numrich & Co. in Leipzig

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  • Cover of: Specimen of printing types from the foundery of Binney & Ronaldson, Philadelphia

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  • Cover of: Condensed specimen book from the Boston Type Foundry.

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  • Cover of: A specimen of printing types

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  • Cover of: A specimen of cast ornaments

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  • Cover of: Fifteenth book of specimens

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  • Cover of: Catalogue and book of specimens of type faces and printing material and machinery

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  • Cover of: Selections from the specimen book of the Fann Street Foundry.

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  • Cover of: Convenient book of specimens.: Franklin Type Foundry.

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  • Cover of: Specimen book and catalog: a price list of printers' supplies, showing types and rules in which are embodied all the latest ideas that enable the printer to produce superior work ...

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  • Cover of: Abridged specimen book. Type, nickel-alloy on universal line: Comprising a price list of types, borders, leads and slugs, brass rule, brass galleys ; miscellaneous cuts and general supplies for printers

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  • Cover of: The manual of linotype typography: prepared to aid users and producers of printing in securing greater unity and real beauty in the printed page

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  • Cover of: Specimens of printing types: ornaments, borders, corners, rules, emblems, initials, &c.

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  • Cover of: The monotype specimen book of type faces: A complete catalog of matrices made for use with the monotype composing machine and with type & rule caster.

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  • Cover of: New specimen book.

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  • Cover of: Specimen Book and Price List of Printing Material

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  • Cover of: Types of the De Vinne press: specimens for the use of compositors, proofreaders and publishers.

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  • Cover of: Specimen Book and Catalog: A Price List of Printer's Supplies, Types, Rules and Accesories of the Very Latest Designs which facilitate the economical production of Superior Printing

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  • Cover of: Eleventh book of specimens of printing types and every requisite for typographical use and adornment

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  • Cover of: 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, book binding machinery etc., together with valuable information to the craft. Specimen book no.9.

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  • Cover of: Spécimen des caractères de la fonderie normale à Bruxelles: provenant de la fonderie de Jules Didot et de son père, Pierre Didot.

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  • Cover of: Printing type specimens: comprising a large variety of book and jobbing faces, borders and ornaments.

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  • Cover of: Desk book of type specimens, borders, ornaments, brass rules and cuts: catalogue of printing machinery and printers' supplies

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  • Cover of: A specimen of printing types

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  • Cover of: The latest type fashions

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  • Cover of: Pacific coast blue book: containing specimens of type, printing machinery, printing material.

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  • Cover of: Specimens of printing types and ornaments: cast at the Montreal Type Foundry, corner St. Helen and Lemoine Streets, Montreal

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  • Cover of: International Typographical Union souvenir for 1905: fifty-first session, I.T.U. held in Toronto, Canada, August 14 to 19 1905, under auspices of Toronto Union, no. 91. --

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  • Cover of: Specimen book linotype faces.

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  • Cover of: Supplementary catalogue: new type faces, borders, ornaments, brass rule

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  • Cover of: Specimens of printing types

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  • Cover of: Specimens of linotype, monotype, and hand type in use in the book composing room of the Trow Directory, Printing and Bookbinding Company.

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  • Cover of: Linotype faces

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  • Cover of: American line type book, borders, ornaments, price list printing material and machinery.

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  • Cover of: Specimens of type, borders, ornaments, brass rules and cuts, etc: catalogue of printing machinery and materials, wood goods, etc

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  • Cover of: One-line specimens: linotype faces.

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  • Cover of: Harpel's typograph: or Book of specimens containing useful information, suggestions and a collection of examples of letterpress job printing arranged for the assistance of master printers, amateurs, apprentices, and others

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  • Cover of: Alphabetical index to type faces.

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  • Cover of: The typography of advertisements that pay: how to choose and combine type faces, engravings and all the other mechanical elements of modern advertisement construction

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  • Cover of: Pacific coast blue book

    First published in 1896 1 edition — 1 previewable work
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March 28, 2019 Edited by Stephen Coles updated list seeds.
July 14, 2014 Edited by Stephen Coles updated list seeds.
July 14, 2014 Edited by Stephen Coles updated list seeds.
July 14, 2014 Edited by Stephen Coles updated list seeds.
July 14, 2014 Created by Stephen Coles Created new list.