Item #107061 Specimen Book of Type Faces 1909. Hussey & Gillingham, 106 and 108 Currie St., Adelaide [cover title]. Trade Catalogue.
Specimen Book of Type Faces 1909. Hussey & Gillingham, 106 and 108 Currie St., Adelaide [cover title]
Specimen Book of Type Faces 1909. Hussey & Gillingham, 106 and 108 Currie St., Adelaide [cover title]
Specimen Book of Type Faces 1909. Hussey & Gillingham, 106 and 108 Currie St., Adelaide [cover title]
Specimen Book of Type Faces 1909. Hussey & Gillingham, 106 and 108 Currie St., Adelaide [cover title]

Specimen Book of Type Faces 1909. Hussey & Gillingham, 106 and 108 Currie St., Adelaide [cover title]

Adelaide, Hussey and Gillingham, 1909.

Tall octavo, 117 leaves (rectos only printed and numbered) plus [4] leaves of pictorial ornaments (versos blank) at the rear; although the pagination commences at 1, one leaf before it - presumably the title leaf - has been removed.

Quarter roan and cloth, lettered in gilt on the front cover; slight surface loss to the leather, with a little loss to the head and foot of the spine; cloth flecked and a little marked, with minor wear to the corners and along one bottom edge; pastedowns offset; first and last pages a little foxed, with minimal scattered light foxing elsewhere; a good copy (internally excellent).

Not surprisingly, we have been unable to trace any other copies of this parochial in-house type specimen catalogue. The choice of text is instructive, with the largest number of words appearing in the smallest-available type (Pearl Roman, the second of the 621 individual fonts on display): 'Next in both chronology and importance came the work of Captain Charles Sturt, of the 39th Regiment, a man inflexible, hardy and'.

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