The Silver Buckle Press Collection
Located at the University of Wisconsin, this site offers some copies of old type specimen books for viewing. There are neither PDF downloads nor high resolution scans, but one can get a feel of the contents. The list (as of early 2012) is below: - Add "punch" to your printing with Hamilton wood type. 1951
- American line type book: borders and ornaments price list, printing machinery and material. 1906
- ATF Spartan: medium and italic.
- Automatic white space.
- Bauer types in use.
- The Blue Streak Linotypes: master models 31 & 32.
- The Blue Streak Linotypes: model fourteen.
- Hamilton printing plant equipment / manufactured by Hamilton Manufacturing Company. Hamilton Manufacturing Co. (Two Rivers, Wis.) ([1922-1932])
- Instruction on installation, care and operation of the chandler & price 10x15 and 12x18 craftsman press with rice automatic feeder 1934. Chandler & Price company (1934)
- [Letter from Ray C. Cook, sales director of Hamilton Manufacturing Company regarding Hamilton wood type catalog no. 25]. Cook, Ray C. (1951)
- La lettre d'imprimerie: origine, développement, classification & 12 notices illustrées sur les arts du livre. Thibaudeau, F (1921)
- La lettre d'imprimerie: origine, développement, classification & 12 notices illustrées sur les arts du livre. Thibaudeau, F (1921)
- Linotype news. 1963
- Nickel-alloy type: Keystone Type Foundry. 1906
- The Nubian: A New Fashion in Types (1928). Local download.
- Price list of printing type and typographic material. Mackellar, Smiths & Jordan Co (1891)
- The printing arts: selected from a detailed description of all guilds. Sachs, Hans, Ammann, Jost (1968)
- Two-series modernage typography introduced by the American Type Founders Company.
- Type specimen book. Democrat Printing Co. (Madison, Wis.) ([1940])
- Types: fancy metal rules and metal furniture too.
- Wood 2. Morgan Press ([1964])
- Wood type. Hamilton Manufacturing Co (1938)
- Wood type. 1897
- Woodcock's printers' and lithographers' weekly gazette. 1881
- Woodtype: selective emphasis for fine typography. 1960
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