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Type Specimen.- Thieme (Carl Albert) Letterproef der
Type Specimen.- Thieme (Carl Albert) Letterproef der
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Type Specimen.- Thieme (Carl Albert) Letterproef der Boekdukkery, only edition, 43 plates of specimens of type, scripts, music, ornaments, numbers, symbols, coats-of-arms, vignettes, and masonic decorations, contemporary ink signature "L.H.Eberson" to title, original printed boards with decorative border, title on upper cover, printing press on lower, spine lettered in manuscript, rubbed, joints a little worn, [Not in Bigmore & Wyman], folio, Arnhem, 1830.

⁂ Rare printer's type specimen showing the range of types and ornaments in a Dutch printing house in the early nineteenth century. The firm was founded by Herman Carel Anton Thieme of Wesel in Germany in 1792, and was continued by his four sons in Arnhem and Zutphen. Carl Albert was his grandson and operated as a bookseller, printer and publisher. WorldCat records only 5 copies, all in the Netherlands.
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Type Specimen.- Thieme (Carl Albert) Letterproef der

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