[Rarebooks] FS: Rare 1894 French Type Specimen catalog

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(TYPOGRAPHY) Mayeur, Allainguillaume & Cie. SPECIMEN-ALBUM DE LA FONDERIE GVE MAYEUR ALLAINGUILLAUME & CIE, SUCCRS. Labeurs & Journaux Initiales & Caracteres Varies de Fantasie Vignettes, Ornements, Etc. Paris: (Mayeur, Allainguillaume & Cie.). 1894 (stamped at the bottom of the spine). Folio. Unpaginated (approx. 400pp.). Illustrated with type faces, borders, display types, decorations, vignettes, etc., some printed in various colored inks, including sample printing jobs. Orig. calf spine, over gilt stamped illustrated cloth. Spine rebacked with the orig. gilt backstrip laid down.	$1,250.00 (trade discount allowed)
Each printed specimen (many folding) is dated at the bottom of the page. A fabulous resource for French types of the 1880s and early 1890s.


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