Portal:Typography

Typography

Type design and typefaces

Specimen catalogs

• A Collection of facsimiles of the types, woodcuts and capital letters used by early printers (1840) (external scan)
• 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) (external scan)

Alexander Wilson & Son

• A Specimen of Printing Types (1786) (external scan)

American Type Founders

⁠See also: Portal:American Type Founders

• 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)

Anthony Bessemer

• A. Bessemer's specimen of printing types (1830) (external scan)

Austin's Imperial Letter Foundry

• Specimen of printing types (Austin, 1827) (1827) (external scan)

Baltimore Type Company

• One Line Specimens and Revised Price List No. 8-A (1938) (external scan)

Blake, Garnett and Co.

• A specimen of printing types, etc. by Blake, Garnett and Co. (1819) (external scan)

Boston Type and Stereotype Foundry

• Specimen of Printing Types from the Boston Type & Stereotype Foundry (1832) (external scan)
• Specimen Sheets (1856) (external scan)
• Specimens, containing a selection from the printing materials made at this establishment (1857) (external scan)
• Condensed specimen book from the Boston Type Foundry (1860) (external scan)
• Popular Designs for Artistic Printers (1892) (external scan)

Bruce Type Foundry

• Our handy book of types, borders brass rule and cuts, printing machinery and general supplies (1901) (external scan)

Caslon and Catherwood

• Specimen of printing types (1821) (external scan)

Cincinnati Type Foundry

• Fifteenth Book of Specimens (1882) (external scan)
• The Cincinnati Type Foundry Co's Specimen and Price-list (1870) (external scan)

Fann Street Foundry

• Selections from the specimen book of the Fann Street Foundry (1874) (external scan)

Government Printing Office

• Specimens of the job room types (1891) (external scan)

Hamilton Manufacturing Co.

• Specimens of Holly Wood Type (1880) (external scan)

Henry Caslon

• Specimen of Printing Types (1841) (external scan)

H. G. Bishop

• Bishop's specimens of job work for printers (1890) (external scan)

Mackellar, Smiths & Jordan

• The printers' handy book of specimens (1876) (external scan)
• Eleventh book of specimens of printing types and every requisite for typographical use and adornment (1885) (external scan)

Montreal Type Foundry

• Specimens of Printing Types and Ornaments (1850) (external scan)
• Specimens of printing types, plain & ornamental (1865) (external scan)

Palmer & Rey

• New Specimen Book (1884) (external scan)

Rand & Avery

• R & A specimens (1865) (external scan)

S. W. Green's Son

• Specimens of type in use by S.W. Green's Son (1881) (external scan)

William Caslon

• A Specimen (1734) (external scan)
• A specimen of printing types (1785) (external scan)
• A specimen of printing types (1798) (external scan)

William H. Page & Co.

• Specimens of chromatic wood type, borders, etc. (1874) (external scan)

V. & J. Figgins

• Specimen of printing types (1821) (external scan)
• Specimen of Plain & Ornamental Types (1845) (external scan)

Type foundries

Companies that manufacture physical type for use in printing presses.

• Portal:American Type Founders

Periodicals

⁠See also: Portal:Periodicals#Literature,_language_and_library_science

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.

• Printers' Journal and Typographical Magazine
• Portal:The Typographical Journal

Works about typography

• 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

• "Typography," by John Henry Hessels and John Southward in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (23) (1888)
• "Typography," by John Henry Hessels, John Southward and Hugh Munro Ross in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)

See also

• Portal:Book industries and trade for more general topics such as Publishing, as well as the physical manufacture of books rather than their typesetting.