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ComCom type specimen book.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Tehon Collection Art and Design Z250 .C62
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- Format:
- Book
- 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:
- 175 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations ; 29 cm
- Edition:
- [New revised edition].
- Other Title:
- Type specimen book
- Computer Composition type specimen book
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Haddon Craftsmen, Inc., Division of Intext, [between 1980 and 1989?]
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Avanta (Electra)
- Baskerville
- Eterna
- Gael (Caledonia)
- Garamond
- Janson
- Primer
- Roma (Optima)
- Times Roman
- Special characters.
- Notes:
- "ComCom, the Computer Composition Division of Intext, and the Haddon Craftsmen, Inc., are pleased to present to their customers and friends a new revised Type Specimen Book."
- "ComCom, Inc. offers the graphic arts trade the latest in technological advancements in high-speed typesetting: computer composition."--P. [v].
- Blue buckram cloth covered boards lettered and decorated in silver.
- Local Notes:
- Tehon Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.
- OCLC:
- 971335064
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