Pat,
The Newberry Library in Chicago has an extensive special collections on
printing and typeface. I used their resources while researching typefaces
from Barnhart Bros., Chicago. I don't know how extensive their collection is
from outside of the US, but it might be worth a shot.

Elizabeth

Elizabeth L. Fuller
Archaeologist/Project Manager
Brockington and Associates
6611 Bay Circle, Suite 220
Norcross, GA 30071
770-662-5807 Ext. 30
770-662-5824 (FAX)

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From: Pat Reynolds <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2002 2:08 PM
Subject: Typefaces


> Dear Everyone,
>
> Can anyone recommend reading on typography? Ideally, I'd like works that
> illustrate typefaces used by printers around the world (excepting
> southern Europe) in the early modern period.  If there is something
> which is comparative, so much the better, but I'm happy to work out for
> myself the difference between a Netherlands V of 1600 and a US V of
> 1800.
>
> Best wishes to all,
>
> Pat
> (who still cannot read the subject line 'Indian Schools Archaeology'
> without thinking that the topic is what young people in the subcontinent
> are learning and how they are being engaged - if anyone does know,
> please could they let me know? I'm sure that there is a lot we can learn
> in the UK from practice elsewhere.  Simlarly 'Egyptian Schools
> Archaeology' - I have a staff member who is very keen to build links
> with Egypt).
> --
> Pat Reynolds
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>    "It might look a bit messy now, but just you come back in 500 years
time"
>    (T. Pratchett)