Armstrong Type Manual, w/ business card of treasurer Walter Armstrong laid in.
Philadelphia: Walter T. Armstrong Typographers, N.D. Circa 1945. First edition, Limited Edition, this copy numbered 835. Three-ring bound, in green leatherette w/ silver lettering. Quarto, pp. approx. 500, unpaginated, w/ b/w alphabets in varying point sizes of all types represented. Slightly musty, else Very Good +. Item #9137
Scarce and extensive manual of typefaces. Some of the less well known include: Agency, Airport, Alternate, Ad Script, American Text, Bank Script, Barnum, Bauer, Bernhard Brush, Bulmer, Brucde, Cochin, Commercial Script, Copperplate, Corvinus, Craw, Californian, Dom, Eve, Flash, Girder, Gloria, Grayda, Gillies, Greco, Kennerley, Keynote, Lydian, Legend, Le Mercure, Lilith, Lining, Marbleheart, Metropolis, Neuland, Nubian, Onyx, Orplid, Old Bowery, Perpetua, Phenix, Park Avenue, Pericles, Repro, Raleigh, Stymie, Spire, Studio, Tourist, Trylon, Trafton, Valiant, Venus, Weiss.
Price: $125.00