Vincent Figgins Type Specimens 1801 and 1815. Reproduced in Facsimile

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Printing Historical Society, St Bride Institute, London. 1967. 8vo. 44 pp. followed by 64 unpaginated pages with a facsimile of Vincent Figgins’s proof book from 1815, printed on the recto only. The type proof plate, in facsimile, from 1801 bound and fold-out. Green buckram binding with gilt spine lettering, spine is faded.

Figgins’s type proof plate is a great rarity with only one copy known, the proof book there are seven known copies. of. The 1815 proof book is also interesting for its ’Fat Faces’ and the first known cut ’Slab Serif’, later known as Egyptian.

“Reviewing the book Nicolas Barker wrote: ”…there is considerable food here to sustain a substantially revised picture of early 19th-century typefounding.” (Berthold Wolpe. A Retrospective Survey 166).