A Desk Book of Printing Types to Which is Appended a Condensed Catalogue and Price List of Printing Machinery and Materials

Title: A Desk Book of Printing Types to Which is Appended a Condensed Catalogue and Price List of Printing Machinery and Materials

Author: American Type Founders Co.

Publication: Boston, Mass.: American Type Founders Co., 1898.

Description: First edition of this book of type specimens by the American Type Founders Co. Numerous black-and-white illustrations throughout. Bound in full pictorial green cloth stamped in red and black. 8 x 5 inches; xx, 946, [2] pages. Additional printed leaves tipped-in at pages [iv], 278 and 660. Contemporary label on the pastedown stating that the book was loaned to C.H. Turner by the American Type Founders Co. on October 22, 1898. Pencil drawing by a former owner laid in at p. 657. Binding with moderate edgewear, bumped corners, and foxed endpapers; text with mild toning. Very Good.