Portal:American Type Founders

Class Z - Bibliography and Library Science
Subclass E - Book industries and trade

American Type Founders

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Business trust created in 1892 by the merger of 23 type foundries, representing about 85% of all type manufactured in the United States.

American Type Founders

Works

• American Speciman Book of Type Styles (1898) (external scan)
• Specimens of Type (1897) (external scan)
• Specimens of Printing Type (1897) (external scan)
• Desk Book of Type Specimens (1900) (external scan)
• American Speciman Book of Type Styles (1912) (external scan)
• New Type Faces (1917) (external scan)
• Specimen Book and Catalogue (1923) (external scan)
• Book of American Types (1934) (external scan)
• Spartan Family (1951)