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 (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.