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Early in our careers we realized that the success of a small letterpress book shop lay not in the purchase of excellent printing presses but in acquiring the best Monotype machines made. Throughout the 1970’s and 80’s, we avoided buying the commercial scrap being dumped by the trade typesetting houses, and instead concentrated on acquiring only matrices of the classic English Monotype book faces. Today our Monotype machines cast type from 8-to 72-point. With over 7000 accented matrices, we can offer metal type in any number of languages. This represents the most extensive collection of classic English Monotype book faces in the United States. In the search for metal type, it is important to consider the ‘depth of drive’ for Monotype composition type faces. Most are only .030" because American shops bought only American/Lanston mats. All of our type is cast from .050" drive English Monotype matrices for two reasons. First, the deeper drive lends a greater strength so the type endures the letterpress ‘punch,’ particularly necessary for well-kerned italic characters. Second, buying type is an investment, and anything less than the best, both technically and aesthetically, is a waste of time, money, space, and artistic potential. Whereas one item or another always eluded our previously published specimen lists, this list below is up-to-date and as comprehensive as possible. Click on the name of a type face below to view a specimen of that type.
ALBERTUS. 481 ALBERTUS TITLING.
324 ANTIGONE (Greek) BARUCH-SCHOCKEN (Hebrew) BASKERVILLE.
169 BELL.
341 BEMBO.
270 BEMBO BOLD.
428 BEMBO TITLING.
370 BLADO.
119 CASTELLAR.
600 CENTAUR
& ARRIGHI.
252 DANTE.
592 DANTE TITLING.
612 EHRHARDT.
453 FABRITUS FAIRBANK BEMBO ITALIC CONDENSED.
294 FOURNIER.
185 GAELIC GARAMOND.
156 GILL
SANS LIGHT.
362 GILL
SANS MEDIUM. 262
GILL
SANS BOLD. 275
GILL SANS BOLD CONDENSED.
343 GILL SANS EXTRA BOLD.
321 GILL SANS CYRILLIC JOANNA.
478 LOMBARDIC CAPITALS.
293 LUTETIA.
255 NEW HELLENIC (Greek) OCTAVIAN.
603 OLD ENGLISH . 456 PERPETUA.
239 PERPETUA LIGHT TITLING.
480 PERPETUA TITLING.
258 PLANTIN.
110 POLIPHILUS.
170 POLIPHILUS TITLING.
230 SACHSENWALD. SONZINO (Hebrew) SPECTRUM.
556 UNIVERS
LIGHT. 685 UNIVERS LIGHT CONDENSED.
686 UNIVERS
MEDIUM. 689 UNIVERS MEDIUM CONDENSED.
690 UNIVERS MEDIUM EXPANDED.
688 UNIVERS
BOLD. 693 UNIVERS EXTRA BOLD EXPANDED.
695 VAN
DIJCK. 203 WALBAUM.
374 WALBAUM MEDIUM.
375
MISCELLANEOUS MONOTYPE BORDERS & ORNAMENTS
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