Amsterdam Type Foundry (17 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Folding specimen printed in black, lime-green and terracotta. A fine copy. Designed by Leonard H.D. Smit. A formal script of medium weight.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Printed in black, red and greyish-green. Decorated covers. A fine copy. An uncial script type designed by S.H. de Roos in 1938.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Printed in red, black and blue. A fine copy. Designed by A. Overbeek. A freely drawn letter with almost no serifs.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Printed in black with occasional use of pale blue, orange and illustration. Advertisements, ornaments and display. Notable for some nice inline and script types. Blue cloth, stamped and titled in gilt (a bit soiled at the front board). A very good copy. Typefaces include: Garaldians, De Roos, Empire. Nobel, Ideal News, Balloon, Hidalgo, Libra, Mistral, Reiner Script and others. …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Set and printed in red and black on Hyacinth paper as a specimen of Hollandse Mediaeval type, but displaying other S.H. De Roos types as well (Javaanish, Erasmus,Grotius, Magere, etc.) A very good copy indeed.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Handsomely printed in red and black, stapled into decorative wrappers. A fine copy. Designed by Walter H. McKay, Columbia, is a roman which is modern in serif treatment and stress.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Printed in black, brown and blue with illustrations and attractive samples of the type's use; grey overlapping titled in reddish-brown, decorated in yellow. A near fine copy. The roman designed by S.H. De Roos. It is a light face with little variation in colour and somewhat condensed. The serifs are small and oblique on the lower case, The capitals are shorter than the ascenders and narrow, especially H and T.…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Attractively printed in red and black and self-wrappered. A very good to fine copy. A geometric sans-serif after the Continental mode designed by S.H. de Roos and Dick Dooijes. A full family of types is displayed, including Inline Capitals.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Set in various types, very handsomely printed mostly in red and black, with specimen sheets and occoasional use of decorative ornaments and different paper stocks. Orange paper folder titled in black. A fine copy. Types shown include: De Roos, Garamont, Bodoni, Arsis, Nobel, Ald-Hollandisch, Libra, Rondo, Reiner Script, Excelsior, Hidalgo, Polka Studio, Flambard, Lasso and Raffia. …

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Specimen printed in blue, reddish-brown and black (with the loose items at the rear in similar colours but on different papers). May illustrations, some photographic, including a portrait of Walter Mackay. Plum semi stiff wrappers, with device, titled in yellow. A fine copy. Unusually for a type specimen this has a precise date, 56.11.03 (the Columbia series was developed 1956-61). It is a roman which is modern in in serif treatment and stress. The Q has its tail entirely outside the bowl, the lower case g is almost entirely an old face letter.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Handsomely printed in red and black. A very good copy indeed. A light roman designed by S.H. De Roos. The type has vertical stress, rather thin flat serifs, extending both ways on top of the ascenders.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Printed in maroon and black on white and grey. Slightly soiled, but a very good copy. Select (1936) designed by Albert Augsburg, has horizontal shaded capitals with thin serifs. Juno is an alphabet of inline capitals, rather wide, again with thin serifs.Gravure Open is unknown to me, but is not unlike SB Old Face Open.…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Printed in red and black with many examples and illustrations within the text. Cream paper wrappers with red printed label superimposed on the front cover. A very good to fine copy. A light roman designed by S.H. De Roos. The type has vertical stress, rather thin flat serifs, extending both ways on top of the ascenders. …

Small 4to, beige parchment wrappers, printed label on upper cover, as issued, 36pp. A display piece for De Roos's Roman & Italic typefaces, and on the occasion of his seventieth birthday, made in gratitude by his colleagues at the foundry. #422 of 750 copies only. A nice, clean, Very Good copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Layout by D.Dooijes. The first specimen book of de Roos Roman & Italic, printed in black, brown and blue with graphic examples of the type's use. A fine copy. A light face with little variation in colour and somewhat condensed. The serifs are small and oblique on the lower case.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 2nd Edition. Text in English and Swedish. Printed in black and reddish-brown with some decorations in light blue. Some inserted leaves. Brown cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, spine titled in gilt. A fine copy. An extensive and handsome specimen book, containing, inter alia: De Roos Roman & Italic (1947), Erasmus Initials & Mediaeval (1923), Grotius, Garamont, Renaissance Borders and Ornaments, Egmont (many sorts, 1933), Bodoni, Apollo Borders, Gravure, Nobel (1931), Primula , Atlas, Simplex (1939), Libra (1938), Studio (1946), Juno, Rondo (1948), Reiner Script (1951), Aigrette, Excelsior.…

4to. [pp. 18]. text illus. facsimiles & type specimens. tipped-in slip. wrs.