Portal:Typography

Specimen catalogs

 * A Collection of facsimiles of the types, woodcuts and capital letters used by early printers (1840)
 * Some early type specimen books of England, Holland, France, Italy, and Germany (1875)
 * 100 fancy specimens of job printing by John L. Phillips (1875)

Alexander Wilson & Son

 * A Specimen of Printing Types (1786)

Anthony Bessemer

 * A. Bessemer's specimen of printing types (1830)

Austin's Imperial Letter Foundry

 * Specimen of printing types (Austin, 1827) (1827)

Baltimore Type Company

 * One Line Specimens and Revised Price List No. 8-A (1938)

Blake, Garnett and Co.

 * A specimen of printing types, etc. by Blake, Garnett and Co. (1819)

Boston Type and Stereotype Foundry

 * Specimen of Printing Types from the Boston Type & Stereotype Foundry (1832)
 * Specimen Sheets (1856)
 * Specimens, containing a selection from the printing materials made at this establishment (1857)
 * Condensed specimen book from the Boston Type Foundry (1860)
 * Popular Designs for Artistic Printers (1892)

Bruce Type Foundry

 * Our handy book of types, borders brass rule and cuts, printing machinery and general supplies (1901)

Caslon and Catherwood

 * Specimen of printing types (1821)

Cincinnati Type Foundry

 * Fifteenth Book of Specimens (1882)
 * The Cincinnati Type Foundry Co's Specimen and Price-list (1870)

Fann Street Foundry

 * Selections from the specimen book of the Fann Street Foundry (1874)

Government Printing Office

 * Specimens of the job room types (1891)

Hamilton Manufacturing Co.

 * Specimens of Holly Wood Type (1880)

Henry Caslon

 * Specimen of Printing Types (1841)

H. G. Bishop

 * Bishop's specimens of job work for printers (1890)

Mackellar, Smiths & Jordan

 * The printers' handy book of specimens (1876)
 * Eleventh book of specimens of printing types and every requisite for typographical use and adornment (1885)

Montreal Type Foundry

 * Specimens of Printing Types and Ornaments (1850)
 * Specimens of printing types, plain & ornamental (1865)

Palmer & Rey

 * New Specimen Book (1884)

Rand & Avery

 * R & A specimens (1865)

S. W. Green's Son

 * Specimens of type in use by S.W. Green's Son (1881)

William Caslon

 *  A Specimen (1734)
 * A specimen of printing types (1785)
 * A specimen of printing types (1798)

William H. Page & Co.

 * Specimens of chromatic wood type, borders, etc. (1874)

V. & J. Figgins

 * Specimen of printing types (1821)
 * Specimen of Plain & Ornamental Types (1845)

Type foundries
Companies that manufacture physical type for use in printing presses.


 * Portal:American Type Founders

Periodicals
Type manufacture and printing was a large industry. Many periodicals wwere dedicated to the subject, and many more general printing, publishing and book-making periodicals also covered typographical topics.


 * Printers' Journal and Typographical Magazine
 * Portal:The Typographical Journal

Works about typography

 * The American Printer: A Manual of Typography (multiple editions from 1866 to 1893)
 * Dictionary of Typography and its Accessory Arts by John Southward (1872)
 * Practical Printing: a Handbook of the Art of Typography by John Southward (1882)
 * Historic Printing Types by Theodore Low De Vinne (1886)
 * The Practice of Typography by Theodore Low De Vinne (1900–1902)
 * Volume 1: A treatise on the processes of type-making, the point system, the names, sizes, styles and prices of plain printing types (1900)
 * Volume 2: Correct composition: a treatise on spelling, abbreviations, the compounding and division of words, the proper use of figures and nummerals (1901)
 * Volume 3: A Treatise on Title-Pages (1902)