Enschede, Proef van letteren, 1768

ENSCHEDE (Joh.) [Printers & typefounders]  Proef van letteren, Welke gegooten worden in de Nieuwe Haerlemsche Lettergietery van J. Enschede. [Haarlem:] 1768. 8vo. Engr. frontis. & plates. Folding view of the typefoundry at end. Contemporary boards. NFS

Kynoch Press

Specimens of type in use at the Kynoch Press, Witton, Birmingham, 1934. 8vo. 22cm. Pp. 184 (including three loose supplements). Orig. brown cloth, blind-stamped. Unobtrusive rubber stamp to front pastedown and title. Some marginal fading. V.g. Sold.
   An attractive specimen highly praised by Ruari McLean in his survey of inter-war printers' type specimens (Signature NS, no. 4, 1948). 'Designed by Harry Carter...[and]...decorated with small wood engravings by Eric Ravilious. The book was cloth-bound and, sunk deep into the cover, was Stevens Shanks' Elephant type, an innovative treatment of a rare face which allowed the letters to be felt as well as seen. giving the type a third dimension, emphasising its physical as well as visual characteristics. It was a wholly typographic cover produced by a printer which liked to regard itself as a typographer's press.' Caroline Archer, The Kynoch Press: anatomy of a printing house 1876-1981, London & New Castle, 2000, p.36.