Portal:Typography
Type design and typefaces
[edit]Specimen catalogs
[edit]- A Collection of facsimiles of the types, woodcuts and capital letters used by early printers (1840) IA
- Some early type specimen books of England, Holland, France, Italy, and Germany (1875) (transcription project)
- 100 fancy specimens of job printing by John L. Phillips (1875) IA
Alexander Wilson & Son
[edit]- A Specimen of Printing Types (1786) IA
American Type Founders
[edit]See also: Portal:American Type Founders
- American Speciman Book of Type Styles (1898) IA
- Specimens of Type (1897) IA
- Specimens of Printing Type (1897) IA
- Desk Book of Type Specimens (1900) IA
- American Speciman Book of Type Styles (1912) IA
- New Type Faces (1917) IA
- Specimen Book and Catalogue (1923) IA
- Book of American Types (1934) IA
- Spartan Family (1951)
Anthony Bessemer
[edit]Austin's Imperial Letter Foundry
[edit]Baltimore Type Company
[edit]- One Line Specimens and Revised Price List No. 8-A (1938) IA
Blake, Garnett and Co.
[edit]Boston Type and Stereotype Foundry
[edit]- Specimen of Printing Types from the Boston Type & Stereotype Foundry (1832) IA
- Specimen Sheets (1856) IA
- Specimens, containing a selection from the printing materials made at this establishment (1857) IA
- Condensed specimen book from the Boston Type Foundry (1860) IA
- Popular Designs for Artistic Printers (1892) IA
Bruce Type Foundry
[edit]- Our handy book of types, borders brass rule and cuts, printing machinery and general supplies (1901) (external scan)
Caslon and Catherwood
[edit]- Specimen of printing types (1821) IA
Cincinnati Type Foundry
[edit]- Fifteenth Book of Specimens (1882) IA
- The Cincinnati Type Foundry Co's Specimen and Price-list (1870) IA
Fann Street Foundry
[edit]Government Printing Office
[edit]Hamilton Manufacturing Co.
[edit]- Specimens of Holly Wood Type (1880) IA
Henry Caslon
[edit]- Specimen of Printing Types (1841) IA
H. G. Bishop
[edit]Mackellar, Smiths & Jordan
[edit]- The printers' handy book of specimens (1876) IA
- Eleventh book of specimens of printing types and every requisite for typographical use and adornment (1885) IA
Montreal Type Foundry
[edit]- Specimens of Printing Types and Ornaments (1850) IA
- Specimens of printing types, plain & ornamental (1865) IA
Palmer & Rey
[edit]- New Specimen Book (1884) IA
Rand & Avery
[edit]- R & A specimens (1865) IA
S. W. Green's Son
[edit]William Caslon
[edit]- A Specimen (1734) IA
- A specimen of printing types (1785) IA
- A specimen of printing types (1798) IA
William H. Page & Co.
[edit]V. & J. Figgins
[edit]- Specimen of printing types (1821) IA
- Specimen of Plain & Ornamental Types (1845) IA
Type foundries
[edit]Companies that manufacture physical type for use in printing presses.
Periodicals
[edit]Type manufacture and printing was a large industry. Many periodicals wwere dedicated to the subject, and many more general printing, publishing and book-making periodicals also covered typographical topics.
Works about typography
[edit]- The American Printer: A Manual of Typography (multiple editions from 1866 to 1893)
- Dictionary of Typography and its Accessory Arts by John Southward (1872) (transcription project)
- Practical Printing: a Handbook of the Art of Typography by John Southward (1882)
- Historic Printing Types by Theodore Low De Vinne (1886) (transcription project)
- The Practice of Typography by Theodore Low De Vinne (1900–1902)
- Volume 1: A treatise on the processes of type-making, the point system, the names, sizes, styles and prices of plain printing types (1900) (transcription project)
- Volume 2: Correct composition: a treatise on spelling, abbreviations, the compounding and division of words, the proper use of figures and nummerals (1901) (transcription project)
- Volume 3: A Treatise on Title-Pages (1902)
Encyclopaedic articles
[edit]- "Typography," by John Henry Hessels and John Southward in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (v. 23) (1888)
- "Typography," by John Henry Hessels, John Southward and Hugh Munro Ross in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
See also
[edit]- Portal:Book industries and trade for more general topics such as Publishing, as well as the physical manufacture of books rather than their typesetting.