Author: (Rollins, Carl Purington; Koopman, Harry).
Title: Specimens of Type in the Office of E.L. Hildreth & Co. / Incorporated / at Brattleboro Vermont.
Description: Brattleboro, VT: E. L. Hildreth & Co. 1932. 1932. - Octavo, softcover bound in printed blue wraps. The wraps are lightly bumped & the front wrap is stained. The spine & the adjacent edges of of the wraps are faded. There are a few very light stains to the lower half of the spine. 228 pages. The pastedowns have separated from the inside wraps. There is a light stain to the fore-edge. Illustrated with numerous samples of type faces. The contents are bright & very good.

Second printing. From the library of E. Harold Hugo of the Meriden Gravure Company, with his book label.

Carl Purington Rollins explains in his preface that in order to produce a readable specimen book, the "copy" selected for displaying the various type faces is reprinted, with the author's permission, from articles on printing and literary subjects contributed by Harry Lyman Koopman, Librarian of Brown University, to various printers' magazines.

Scarce. Very good .

Keywords: BOOKS-ON-BOOKS; TYPOGRAPHY; TYPE FACES; SPECIMEN BOOK; SPECIMENS OF TYPE IN THE OFFICE OF E. L. HILDRETH & CO.; CARL PURINGTON ROLLINS; HARRY KOOPMAN; E. HAROLD HUGO.

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