The Roman and Italic Printing Types in the Printing House of Theodore L. De Vinne & Co.

NY: The De Vinne Press, 1891. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo. 145pp. A typeface sampling both referentially handy and aesthetically pleasing, with colored and gilt initials throughout. The styles represented straddle the classical and the modern, including light and dark faces, solid and leaded. Such samples include what the De Vinne technics call Pica, Long-primer, Bourgeois, Minion, Nonpareil, and Pearl. Most intriguingly, the exemplary excerpts derive from anecdotes and philosophies about printing and book-making, from such figures as Victor Hugo, Arthur Penn, and Sir William Waller. Bound in full gray cloth over boards with gilt stamping and titling to front cover and spine. Moderate rubs to corners and edges, else very good. With stamp of Chicago's Union Stock Yard & Transit Company at front flyleaf.