Author: TYPE SPECIMENS "MONOTYPE".
Title: Specimens of the type faces, borders, ornaments, rules and other material cast on 'Monotype' type composing and casting machines.
Description: London, Monotype Corporation Ltd, (ca. 1961-1967). Large 4to. [ca. 300 pp. with specimens]. Cloth. (library copy; binding damaged (hinges severely split, but holding); label of the North-East Essex Technical College & School of Art of pastedown; a few library stamps throughout; some leaves frayed; leaves bolted together) - heavy book, additional postage required. ¶ Not entirely complete ("The value of this loose-leaf book depends on your willingness to keep it up-to-date"), but still with hundreds of specimens. Includes a list of discontinued types / 'withdrawal of series' from 1967 on; and checklists for May 1967; December, August, March 1966; October (2x), March, June 1965; November, February 1964; September 1961; September 1962.

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