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The many faces of Weltz Ad Service : advertising typography day & night.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Tehon Collection Art and Design Z250 .W45
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Weltz Ad Service, New York.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Printing--Specimens.
- Printing.
- Genre:
- Specimens.
- Penn Provenance:
- Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)
- Tehon, Susan (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 2 unnumbered pages, xviii, 414 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [New York] : The Service, [1964?]
- Contents:
- Hand set faces
- Accented characters
- Comparative leading specimens
- Miscellaneous linotype characters
- Linotype borders
- Piece borders and ornaments
- Fancy brackets
- Arrowheads, open and solid
- Penline scrolls and flourishes
- Leaf ornaments
- Mortised initials and ornamental cuts
- Postal material
- Recent additions.
- Notes:
- Cover title.
- "Please note ... although we have assembled New York's largest selection of type faces for your use, our policy of setting the pace in service, quality and variety precludes maintenance of a truly complete type directory. New fonts are added virtually everyday. Please check our service desk for faces or sizes not shown here."
- Spiral bound with orange leatherette cover stamped in black.
- Includes index.
- Type specimen book.
- Local Notes:
- Tehon Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.
- Tehon Collection copy has "Atha Tehon" stamped in gold on front cover.
- OCLC:
- 44666431
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