5.22.2007

Type Specimen Books






There's nothing nicer than flipping through old specimen books, especially ones that are letterpress printed. There are some great resources on flickr if you want to look through them. Sadly the library in the press I visited was too cold to stay in so I only photographed three books. But a quick look on Flickr reveals comprehensive albums of them. It makes me wish St Brides had the resources to digitise some of its treasures so more people could have access to them.

Here are some of Flickr
Ralf
Fountaineer
Romesh

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Absolutely fantastic. Quite agree about digitising St Bride. Perhaps that's the key to it's survival: digitise their stuff, post it online and charge for online membership. That would be something worth paying for.

Anonymous said...

Yes I agree. If you could open up all the amazing history they have in that library that so many people are unaware of I really think it could be a great source of revenue for them to keep the whole place going, but I am sure it would require more funds than they have and would change the philosophy of actually seeking out and visiting the library.