Typography and Printing

57 Mergenthal Type Specimen
Mergenthaler Linotype Company . Specimen book of type
styles. Mergenthaler Linotype Company, New York 1915. (2),
XIV, 1078 pages, 80 numb. examples of colour printing printed
on verso and recto of 40 leaves. Publisher’s cloth gilt title to
spine and front cover. Oblong- folio. Covers rubbed, extremeties
slightly worn. E 600.00
Pagination jumps from 567 to 705, but these pages also omitted in the
detailed index. With various extra-pages numbered a-b-c. A printed pricelist
dated 1916 loosely laid in. A nice and complete copy.
58 Imprimerie Nationale
(Imprimerie Nationale.) Spécimen des Types Divers de
l‘Imprimerie Nationale. I. types Français. Paris, Imprimerie Nationale,
December 1870. 4to (290 x 215mm), pp. [vi], 201; with
12 section titles (not part of the collation) and 118 supplementary
leaves; mostly printed on recto only; recently bound in half
blue calf over boards, spine lettered in gilt. E 360.00
Bigmore & Wyman I 357 (for 1878 edition); not in Birrell & Garnett, not
in Jammes; not found in St. Bride catalogue. OCLC lists just the McGill
copy outside of France. A comprehensive type specimen of the Imprimerie
Nationale, published to coincide with its final name change from Royal
and Imperial to National Printing Office.
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