Bullard's Alphabets : a selective showing of types most frequently used in modern typography : Linotype, Monotype, Ludlow, Foundry, Photolettering.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Howard O. Bullard, Inc.
• Atha Tehon Thiras Art and Design Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Type and type-founding--Specimens.
• Type and type-founding.
• Printing--Specimens.
• Printing.

Genre:

• Specimens.

Penn Provenance:

• Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)
• Tehon, Susan (donor)

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages, 59 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 2 unnumbered pages, xiv, 502 pages : illustrations ; 26 x 37 cm

Other Title:

• Bullard's alphabets for modern typography
• Supplement No. 1. Bullard's alphabets
• Bullard's alphabets 1958

Place of Publication:

New York : Howard O. Bullard, Inc., 150 Varick Street, [1955]

Contents:

• Linotype
• Monotype
• Ludlow
• Display
• Decorations
• Photolettering.

Notes:

• "Copyright 1955 by Howard O. Bullard, Inc."
• Loose leaves contained within a 7 ring binder.
• Title of binder: Bullard's alphabets for modern typography.
• Title page printed in red and black.
• Also contains Supplement No. I. Bullard's Alphabets 1958 ([62] pages).
• "Howard O. Bullard, Inc. Typographers. In choosing a typographer it is well to look behind the faces, to see what makes an organism tick. For instance, at Bullard; the brain, the know-how that comes with 46 years of Experience with a capital "E" ... Bullard invites your X-ray examination of these innermost details of operation and urges you to test our performance under any difficult condition."

Local Notes:

Tehon Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.

OCLC:

971352657