The Carey Type Book
New York: Carey Printing Co. / Dittman Color Printing Company, 1918. Very Good. Item #30961
New York: Carey Printing Co. / Dittman Color Printing Company, 1918. First Edition. Folio (30cm.); recent orange cloth with gilt-tooled reverse calf onlays from original binding, all edges gilt, [4],611pp.; typographic and decorative designs throughout, text printed within orange decorative border. Textblock a bit shaken in binding with both front and rear free endpaper expertly reaffixed along gutter, light soil throughout, else a Very Good example in a fine new binding. Date of publication provided by the Preface.
Monumental type specimen catalog and reference issued by one of the leading print firms in Manhattan during World War I. The Preface provides two reasons for issuing such a massive catalog, firstly "to display various faces, sizes and styles of types in order to aid the copy-writer to select a type face best adapted to the subject" and secondly as a reference work "to which the expert or the layman may refer and be enlightened." On the facing leaf the Company pleads with the reader "do not mutilate this book."
Price: $150.00