Ralf Herrmann Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 (edited) I am starting a list of scanned type specimens online. You are free to add more links. For resource that deal with lettering/sign painting, please use this topic. Flickr Type Specimen Grouphttps://www.flickr.com/groups/type_specimen/pool/ William Caslon – A specimen of printing types (1785)http://www.archive.org/stream/specimenofprinti00caslrich Caslon: A specimen of cast ornaments (1798)http://www.archive.org/stream/specimenofprinti00casl Franklin type foundry, Cincinnati – Convenient book of specimens (1889)http://www.archive.org/stream/convenientbookof00allirich Barnhart bros. & Spindler, Chicago – Book of type specimens (1881)http://www.archive.org/stream/bookoftypespecim00barnrich Keystone Type Foundry, Philadelphia – Abridged specimen book (1906)http://www.archive.org/stream/abridgedspecimen00keysrich Cleveland Type Foundry – Catalogue and book of specimens of type faces (1895)http://www.archive.org/stream/cataloguebookofs00clevrich Palmer & Rey, San Francisco – New specimen book (1884)http://www.archive.org/stream/newspecimenbook00palmrich American Type Founders Company – American specimen book of type styles (1912)http://www.archive.org/stream/americanspecimen00amerrich Lanston Monotype Machine Company – The monotype specimen book of type faces (1922)http://www.archive.org/stream/monotypespecimen00lansrich Inland Type Foundry, St. Louis – Specimen book and catalog (1897)http://www.archive.org/stream/specimenbookcata00inlauoft MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan Co, Philadelphia – Specimens of printing types (1892)http://www.archive.org/stream/specimensofprint00mackrich Selections from the specimen book of the Fann Street Foundry (1874)http://www.archive.org/stream/selectionsfromsp00fann Fifteenth book of specimens from the Cincinnati Type Foundry (1882)http://www.archive.org/stream/fifteenthbookofs00cincrich Condensed Specimen Book from the Boston Type Foundry (1860)http://www.archive.org/stream/condensedspecime00bost Specimen of printing types from the foundery of Binney & Ronaldson, Philadelphia (1812)http://www.archive.org/stream/specimenofprinti00binnrich Book of type specimens by Barnhart bros. & Spindler in Chicago (1907)http://www.archive.org/stream/bookoftypespecim00barnrich Edited April 12, 2015 by Ralf Herrmann 3 Link to comment
Ralf Herrmann Posted February 19, 2015 Author Share Posted February 19, 2015 The Silver Buckle Press Collection Add "punch" to your printing with Hamilton wood type (1951) Woodtype: selective emphasis for fine typography (1960) American line type book: borders and ornaments price list, printing machinery and material (1906) Bauer Types in Use Thibaudeau, F / La lettre d'imprimerie: origine, développement, classification and 12 notices illustrées sur les arts du livre (1921) Two-series modernage typography introduced by the American Type Founders Company The Nubian: a new fashion in types Hamilton Manufacturing Co. (Two Rivers, Wis.), Wood type, Hamilton Manufacturing Co., 1938 1 Link to comment
jch02140 Posted March 10, 2015 Share Posted March 10, 2015 Morgan Press / Wood 2 (1964) Link to comment
jch02140 Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 Wm H. Page & Co. / Specimens of chromatic wood types, borders, etc 1 Link to comment
George Thomas Posted March 22, 2015 Share Posted March 22, 2015 (edited) What I would most welcome would be online copies of European metal foundries, especially after 1900. There isn't much available that I have been able to find. Edited March 22, 2015 by George Thomas Link to comment
Ralf Herrmann Posted March 23, 2015 Author Share Posted March 23, 2015 Here is the only fully scanned German one I could think of: Bauerschen Gießerei, Hauptprobe in gedrängter Form, Frankfurt am Mainhttps://archive.org/stream/hauptprobeingedr00baue Link to comment
Ralf Herrmann Posted March 28, 2015 Author Share Posted March 28, 2015 We are happy to announce the release of the first complete electronic issue of the seminal 1923 edition of the American Type Founders (atf) Specimen Book. Considered by many to be the culmination of specimen printing, it is an important, and massive, volume which has been unavailable until now. http://sevanti-letterpress.com/download/1923-atf-specimen-book-download/ 1 Link to comment
jch02140 Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 Hamilton Manufacturing Co. / Wood Type #38 by Hamilton Link to comment
Ralf Herrmann Posted April 5, 2015 Author Share Posted April 5, 2015 Just cover shots, but Henning Krause’s collection is still a joy to look at:https://www.flickr.com/photos/59825996@N00/sets/72157601971266865/ 1 Link to comment
Ralf Herrmann Posted April 9, 2015 Author Share Posted April 9, 2015 Manuale Typografico, 1818http://www.rarebookroom.org/Control/bodtip/index.html Link to comment
Ralf Herrmann Posted April 24, 2015 Author Share Posted April 24, 2015 1789: Anzeige der Lettern u. Schriften, sammt derer Benennung, wie auch einiger Leisten, und Vignetten. Augsburg Link to comment
Ralf Herrmann Posted April 24, 2015 Author Share Posted April 24, 2015 Daily Type Specimen. A tumblr page by James Puckett. http://dailytypespecimen.com Link to comment
Ralf Herrmann Posted April 25, 2015 Author Share Posted April 25, 2015 Type specimen scans by Kris Sowersby: https://www.flickr.com/photos/20994543@N04/sets/ 1 Link to comment
Ralf Herrmann Posted April 27, 2015 Author Share Posted April 27, 2015 At the end of the 18th century, the German printer J.F. Unger tried to create a new typeface that would bridge the traditional German blackletter designs with the Roman typefaces which briefly became more popular at that time in Germany. This is a specimen book (named “Probe einer neuen Art Deutscher Lettern”, 1793) he published to show and discuss this new design. Link to comment
jch02140 Posted April 27, 2015 Share Posted April 27, 2015 Barnhart Brothers & Spindler / Pony specimen book and price list (1893) Link to comment
Ralf Herrmann Posted May 6, 2015 Author Share Posted May 6, 2015 BODONI LIBRARY—Website designed to encourage awareness of the products of the printer Giambattista Bodoni http://bibliotecabodoni.net/en/library Link to comment
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Ralf Herrmann Posted May 31, 2015 Author Share Posted May 31, 2015 I don’t know who is behind it, but Flickr user “Typefaces World” has also a nice collection: https://www.flickr.com/photos/typefacesworld/ Link to comment
Ralf Herrmann Posted June 13, 2015 Author Share Posted June 13, 2015 While the Letter Library site will take some time to get public, there is already a constant stream of interesting images posted on the accompanying social media channels. The type specimen collector @robertmichael has just taken over the Instagram account and the content from there is now also published to our channels on Tumblr, Facebook and Twitter. Feel free to follow us there, if you use any of these network sites. Link to comment
robertmichael Posted June 15, 2015 Share Posted June 15, 2015 Some french specimens at 'Musée de l'imprimerie et de la communication graphique'http://collections.bm-lyon.fr/mil/search Proben aus der Schriftgießerei von Karl Tauchnitz in Leipzighttp://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db/bsb00001210/images/index.html?seite=3&pdfseitex= Link to comment
Ralf Herrmann Posted October 8, 2015 Author Share Posted October 8, 2015 A few scanned type specimen books: http://archiviotipografico.it/en-GB/collection/books Link to comment
Ralf Herrmann Posted June 28, 2016 Author Share Posted June 28, 2016 B.G. Teubner, Leipzig, 1846. Full Scan: http://digital.slub-dresden.de/werkansicht/dlf/14560/1/ Link to comment
Jacques André Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 Since 2005 I have been listing specimens of characters that are available on the web. I have around 250 of them today. They are listed here: http://jacques-andre.fr/faqtypo/BiViTy/index.html I have included as well technical manuals and others matters connected to type making. 1 Link to comment
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