Lorimer & Gillies

LORIMER & GILLIES [Book, Law & General Printers] Specimens of our printing types, headpieces, ornaments, &c. 31 St Andrews Square, Edinburgh, n.d. [c.1905]. 8vo. 23cm. Pp. 244, 247-78, almost certainly as issued. Excisions affecting two leaves in the section of book founts (pp. 135-76): a quarter page at pp. 161-62 and a half page at pp. 173-74; one minor excision at pp. 209-10. the cut affecting the following leaf. Otherwise in very good condition. Orig. brown cloth gilt, red edges. SOLD

Notwithstanding the mutilations a most attractive printer's type specimen largely devoted to jobbing and 'bill' types. Much of the material is labelled with the foundry of origin, Miller & Richard principally, together with Stephenson Blake, Sir Charles Reed & Sons, Caslon, Figgins, Austin Wood, and three late C19 electrotypers, Morton, Walker and Wesselhoeft. Includes some woodletter and a wide range of decorative material. With the book label of J. A. Birkbeck who gave the only other copy I can trace to the late Peter Isaac: it's now in Durham UL. Appears to be the most extensive specimen from this firm recorded.