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Kemble Type Specimen Collection
Kemble Spec Col 16  
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A. Foreman and Son (Type foundry, San Francisco) undated

 

Alexander Wilson and Sons (Type foundry, Glasgow) undated

 

American Type Founders Company (Type foundry) undated

 

Austin Letter Foundry (Samuel and Thomas Sharwood, London) undated

Scope and Contents

Reproduction from Argus Books, Sacramento, California.
 

Caslon, William (Type founder, London) undated

 

Champion Papers (Hamilton, Ohio) undated

 

Cincinnati Type Foundry (Cincinnati, Ohio) undated

 

Continental Typefounders Association (New York) 1947-1949, undated

 

Crane Letterpress (Dennis Y. Ichiyama) 2005

 

Dickinson Typesetting Company (Oakland) undated

 

Eastern Corporation (Bangor, Maine) undated

 

Foolproof Press (Rick von Holdt, Fremont) 1982

 

Frederic Ryder Company (Advertising typographers, Chicago) 1969

 

Joh. Enschede en Zonen (Haarlem, Netherlands) 1928

Scope and Contents

Material is titled The Netherlands Typefoundries and their Material from the 15th to the 19th Centuries a Historical Account Documented and Illustrated chiefly from the Firm of Joh. Enschede en Zonen . Printed by Joh. Enschede en Zonen for William Rudge.
 

Joseph Fry and Sons, Letterfounders (London) undated

 

Klingspor Typefounders (Morristown, New Jersey) undated

 

Mackenzie and Harris, Inc. (Typographers and type founders, San Francisco) 1948, 1960, undated

Scope and Contents

The Centaur and Arrighi specimen was designed by Bruce Rogers, text by Robert Grabhorn of the Grabhorn Press, and printed by Taylor and Taylor, San Francisco.
 

Mergenthaler Linotype Company 1926, undated

Scope and Contents

Includes facsimile of William Caslon type specimen sheet; a reproduction of a specimen designed by Plato de Benedictis; a specimen of Garamond type; a specimen of Cloister type; a specimen of Caslon old face; and a specimen of Bodoni Book type.
 

Mohawk Paper Mills, Inc. (Cohoes, New York) 1967

 

Monotype Composition Company (Type founders and typesetters, San Francisco) 1923, undated

 

Monotype Corporation Limited (Surrey, London) undated

 

Omnicorp (San Francisco) 1973

 

Pacific Pony Press (Oakland) undated

 

Pacific Typographic Service (Emeryville, California) 1971, 1973

 

Price Typography (San Francisco) undated

 

Robinson-Pforzheimer Collection of Old-Fashioned Type Specimens (New York Public Library) undated

 

Type City (Roger Black, Tom Ingalls, Jim MacKenzie, Los Angeles) 1973

 

Unidentified type specimen undated

 

Visual Graphics Corporation 1970

 

White, John T. (Type founder, New York) undated