French Linotype Type Specimen Book (1 results)

28pp., landscape 12mo, printed on rectos only of 28 leaves. Dimensions 21 x 15 cm. In brown card wraps with brown cloth tape spine over staples. In fair condition, on aged thick paper, with foxing to title leaf, and damp staining at foot of first and last few pages. Printed decorative border on front cover, with same border in black ink on title page, enclosing the title in block capitals in red ink: 'SPÉCIMEN | DE | CARACTÈRES, VIGNETTES | & FILETS | LINOTYPE'. Subtitle also in red ink in smaller font size in bottom right-hand corner: 'ENTIÈREMENT EXÉCUTÉ | SUR MACHINES | A COMPOSER LINOTYPE'. Title and page of 'CALIBRAGE' followed by twelve pages printed in black within red decorative borders; then six pages (plus page with section title) of 'Nos Séries de Caractères linotype pour Annoces et Titres'; then three pages (plus page with section title) of 'VIGNETTES | & FILETS | LINOTYPE'; then two pages of 'COMBINAISONS OBTENUS AVEC NOS FILETS ET VIGNETTES LINOTYPE'; and a last page explaining a 'Quadrillé fondu sur Linotype'. Specimens containing dates 1922, 1932 and 1932. Scarce: no record on COPAC or WorldCat, and none in catalogue of the Bibliothèque Nationale.…