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A specimen of printing types / Alex. Wilson and Sons.

Type punches, tweezers etc. (top), with specimens of roman and italic fonts (below). Engraving by Aubin after himself, Defehrt dirext.

A specimen of printing types / Joseph Fry and Sons, letter-founders, Worship-Street, Moorfields.

Plan (top), and three-quarter view (below), of a type case, lettered for a key. Engraving by Benard after L.-J. Goussier.

A typefounder making type characters for printers. Woodcut by J. Amman.

Proef van letteren welke gegooten worden in de nieuwe Haerlemsche lettergietery van J. Enschedé. 1768.

Druckschriften des XV bis XVIII Jahrhunderts in getreuen Nachbildungen / herausgegeben von der Direction der Reichsdruckerei.

Selected essays on books and printing / A.F. Johnson ; edited by Percy H. Muir.

Manuel typographique utile aux gens de lettres, & à ceux qui exercent les différentes parties de l'art de l'imprimerie / [Reṕonse à un mémoire publié ... par MM. Gando, au sujet des caracteres de fonte pour la musique].

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Proef van letteren welke gegooten worden in de nieuwe Haerlemsche lettergietery van J. Enschedé. 1768.

Type punches, tweezers etc. (top), with specimens of roman and italic fonts (below). Engraving by Aubin after himself, Defehrt dirext.

Druckschriften des XV bis XVIII Jahrhunderts in getreuen Nachbildungen / herausgegeben von der Direction der Reichsdruckerei.

Selected essays on books and printing / A.F. Johnson ; edited by Percy H. Muir.

Manuel typographique utile aux gens de lettres, & à ceux qui exercent les différentes parties de l'art de l'imprimerie / [Reṕonse à un mémoire publié ... par MM. Gando, au sujet des caracteres de fonte pour la musique].