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Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Curwen Press
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Kent Argus (Ramsgate, England)
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Libanus Press
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W. B. Fordham & Sons Limited (London, England)
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1986
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Books
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unknown
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19th century
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20th century
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type specimen
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trade catalog
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wood engraving
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printed ephemera
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Marking devices -- Catalogs.
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Marking devices industry.
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Rubber stamp printing -- Catalogs.
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Signs and signboards.
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Book ornamentation.
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Curwen Press.
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Davies, Michael -- Bookplate.
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Kent Argus (Ramsgate, England)
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Libanus Press -- Publisher.
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Libanus Press -- Specimens.
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Printed ephemera -- England -- Specimens.
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Printers -- England.
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Printers' ornaments -- England.
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Printers' ornaments -- Specimens.
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Printing -- England -- Specimens.
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Printing -- England.
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Printing -- Specimens.
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Private presses -- England -- Specimens.
1
Type and type-founding -- England -- Specimens.
1
Type and type-founding -- England.
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.
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W. B. Fordham & Sons Limited (London, England)
"The Easy" sign marker, for making display signs of all kinds
[not before 1898]
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Superior Price Marker
[not before 1895]
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Libanus Press
Daylight jobbery
[1986?]
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Kent Argus (Ramsgate, England)
"Kent Argus" office specimen types
[approximately 1896]
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Curwen Press
A specimen book of types & ornaments in use at the Curwen Press, Plaistow, London
1928