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Total number of records: 54

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items53
Archives1

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection31
Herbert Read Collection1
Incunabula1
Leeds Russian Archive1
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
printing54
type and type-founding31
incunabula12
book collecting6
broadsides6
collectors and collecting6
fireworks6
rare books6
printing, practical4
books2

Count of Place

PlaceCount
Great Britain2
England1
London, United Kingdom1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Haebler, Konrad (1857-1946)6
Hodgkin, John Eliot (1829-1912)6
Audin, Marius (1872-1951)4
Morison, Stanley (1889-1967)4
Bodoni, Giambattista (1740-1813)3
W.H. & J.A. Eadon (Firm)3
Blades, William (1824-1890)2
Carter, Harry Graham2
Caxton, William, Ca. 1422-14912
De Sausmarez, Maurice (1915-1969)2

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From 180012
From 190042

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Up to 189911
Up to 199943

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Type designs of the past and present

Morison, Stanley (1889-1967)

1926

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Specimen of printing types, ornaments, rules, &c

Stephenson, Blake & Co. Ltd

[1854]

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Printing types : their history, forms, and use; a study in survivals (v.1)

Updike, Daniel Berkeley (1860-1941)

1922

Based on lectures delivered as part of a course on the Technique of printing in the Graduate School of Business Administration of Harvard University during the years 1911-1916. cf. Pref.

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Printing types : their history, forms, and use; a study in survivals (v.2)

Updike, Daniel Berkeley (1860-1941)

1922

Based on lectures delivered as part of a course on the Technique of printing in the Graduate School of Business Administration of Harvard University during the years 1911-1916. cf. Pref.

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Abridged catalogue of Riscatype : modern types, rules, borders and ornaments manufactured from the well-known hard wearing display type metal Riscatype

De Sausmarez, Maurice (1915-1969); Yendall & Company

[1937]

"August 1937" -- cover. Yuletide decorations specimens printed in green and red.

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Specimens of printing types before 1850 in the Typographical Library at the University Press, Oxford

Simmons, John Simon Gabriel; Oxford University Press

1959

"Reprinted from the Book collector Winter 1959."

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Aspects of French eighteenth century typography : a study of type specimens in the Broxbourne Collection at Cambridge University Library

Dreyfus, John; McKitterick, David; Roxburghe Club

1982

Spine title: French eighteenth century typography. "Dedicated and presented to the president and members of the Roxburghe Club by John Ehrman, 1982"--P.[v]. Bibliography: p. 110-113.

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Mainzer Probedrucke in der Type des sogenannten Astronomischen Kalenders für 1448 : ein Beitrag zur Gutenbergforschung

Wehmer, Carl (1903-); Stegemann, Viktor (1902-1948)

1948

Bibliographical footnotes.

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