"Monotype" specimen book (v.2)
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This item is held off-site and must be pre-ordered before your visit. Please use the link to the printed items catalogue (below) to request this item. See the Access and usage section below for further details.Details
Type of record: Book
Title: "Monotype" specimen book (v.2)
Classmark: Bibliography G-3.4/MON
Creator(s): Monotype Corporation
Publisher: Lanston Monotype Corporation
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1930-39
Language: English
Size and medium: 2 v
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/197956
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991009598539705181
Description
Includes 4 loose batches of "Additional Specimen Sheets" intended to be inserted into the binders to replace outdated information.
Includes specimens of different kinds of typeface in a variery of sizes, mostly in English, but with some examples in German, French, Hebrew languages, Greek, Gaelic. Also includes examples of decorative text and borders, and supplementary lists of figures.
Catalogued from cover.
Various imprints: Monotype Corporation appears on some sheets.
Access and usage
Access
This item is stored off site at Western Campus and must be ordered online using the 'Printed items catalogue' record link shown below. Store requests are processed each weekday morning and we aim to make items available within 48 hours. You will receive an email from Special Collections when the item is ready to consult in the Reading Room. The item will be held in Special Collections for 2 weeks.
Access to this material is unrestricted.
Request this item from the printed items catalogue (use 'request here')