[Type specimens] Collection of ± 30 type specimens,

by English, Italian, Belgian and other companies, c. 1930-1980, mostly thin specimens in original wrapper but also several bound publications.

Incl.: (1) Caractères Linotype. Société Linotype Belge S.A./ Mergenthaler Linotype Company, Brussels/ New York, c. 1960, 5 parts in one vol., original gilt-lettered and blindstamped cloth, stout 4to. Massive collection, with Belgian address on binding, contents consisting of 5 type specimens of the Mergenthaler Linotype Company, with thumb index; (2) No. 42. Type Book. The San Francisco Chronicle. 1949, unpaginated, with ± 100 one-sided thick paper leaves, in rexine binder, 4to; (3) Libra normal et maigre. Brussels, Établissements "Plantin" S.A., n.d. (c. 1930), with pasted examples of printed matter, original wrapper, folio (wrapper sl. discoloured and trifle frayed; not in PiCarta); (4) Società Nebiolo. Fonderia di caratteri e fabbrica di machine grafiche Torino. 1928, 2 vols., 190; 431 p., original uniform halfcloth (with scattered stamps; bindings with some wear and discolouring). And with ± 25 mostly thin other works, incl. by Mergenthaler, Intertype Company and Nebiolo. (total ± 30)