SPECIMENS OF PRINTING TYPES
by Type Specimen. Neill & Co
Price: $6,800.00
- Bookseller: The Veatchs Arts of the Book
- Seller Inventory #: 14542
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Edinburgh, 1839.
Book Description
Edinburgh, 1839. . 5 3/4 x 9 1/2. 85 leaves printed one side only. Original printed boards with title on upper cover, leather spine.; extremities worn Upper cover and first two ll. detached. Other wise very good, contents clean with no excisions. Inscribed by Neill on the title page. This is the Birrell & Garnett copy, No. 104 in their 'Catalogue of Typefounders' Specimens‹' B&G note that Neill (& Co.) started a foundry in 1790 which was discontinued in 1818 and then reopened in 1838. Reed/Johnson provide a similar history. According to B&G this is the first specimen that has been recorded, and the only copy they had been able to trace. The earliest specimen in the National Library of Scotland is dated 1840. Attractively produced specimen. The job faces (34 leaves) are displayed on facing pages with the identical text but using different leading; the wider spaced text pages are all composed within a nice typographic border. The decorative material and borders (16 ll.) are shown in full page composition, nesting two or three different settings. The balance of the specimen is a showing of display faces including several pages of wood type. No other copies located.
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