Lettering For The Trades

Lovely lettering sample book published in Rotterdam in 1900 for signpainters, stonecutters, lithographers and architects. Kindly shared on Piet Schreuder's Flickrstream.   

500 Years of Printing at a Glance

Five Hundred Years of Printing, by S.H. Steinberg, Pelican Books, 1974 edition. A great resource on type, printing and book design. 
:: Via Things Magazine where there is a nice archive of Pelican book covers categorized by decade.

Alfabeti

Hand-lettered type specimen from 1807. Looks to be a copperplate engraving.
:: Via Mrs Inman's Flickrstream.

Creative Type Looking for Love

Name: Jana Thork Pro.
An OpenType with a pretty face. Many advanced features such as variable strokes and flourishes. Not a wallflower. Bold and stylish when desired. Into many extras such as ligatures, swashes and not afraid of H & Js. No right-leaning or oblique characters. Seeking other Pro users and alternate characters for casual hook-ups. Let me show you what's in my suitcase.
:: Font design by Ricardo Esteves Gomes from Outras Fontes.
:: Via Ricardo Esteves Gomes photostream.

Small Book, Big Type

Wood type specimen book of the Wm. H Page company, published after Hamilton Type bought Page in 1891. Page was one of the finest American type designers of the 19th century. I have a facsimile of an 1888 version of the Wm. H. Page specimen book published by David Peat in 2002. It appears to be identical to this 1891 book with the exception of the cover. Some nice pages from this book are available for hi-rez downloads at Letterpress Daily. Thanks to Nick Sherman for the images.