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A specimen of printing types.
1783
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Omega Project
Project Omega was conceived by the Library's Strategic Council - a scoped three year project aimed to facilitate the effective discovery and presentation of our collections, with a focus on the digitization of the Special Collections Graphic Arts backlog in Firestone library.
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Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
The Graphic Arts Collection holds prints, drawings, photographs, paintings, sculpture, and printed ephemera along with an international book collection specializing in fine press,
Metadata
- Call Number
- D-West 49/GC107/Box 02/Oversize GA 2024.04246
- A West 24/Drawer 19/GC107/Half Folio GA 2007.01738
- Publisher
- Glasgow : [s.n.], 1783.
- People
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- Author
- Alexander Wilson and Sons
- Language
- English
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Item Summary
Descriptive Information
- Title
- A specimen of printing types.
- Call Number
- D-West 49/GC107/Box 02/Oversize GA 2024.04246
- A West 24/Drawer 19/GC107/Half Folio GA 2007.01738
- Identifier
- ark:/88435/dcjh344657f
- Publisher
- Glasgow : [s.n.], 1783.
- Language
- English
- Date Created
- 1783
- Extent
- 1 sheet ; 53 x 42 cm
- Source Acquisition
- Princeton copy 1 Gift of P.J. Conkwright.
- References
- Berry & Johnson. Specimens of printing types, 1665-1830, p. 53.
- Updike, D.B. Printing types, II, p. 117.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Medium: Letterpress printing
- Item description: Caslon specimen, printed in four columns. Includes Hebrew and Greek types.
- Signed in plate, lower center: "The above are some of the sizes cast in the letter foundery of Dr. Alex. Wilson and Sons, Glasgow. 1783.".
Discovery Information
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 2
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Omega Project
- Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/a8100da2-96f5-4d18-b36d-5539df0686d2/manifest