#type tuesday

William Savage. Practical Hints on Decorative Printing. (London, 1822)

For Type Tuesday, the Peter Henderson & Co. Autumn Bulbs catalogue from 1900 blends the elegance of Victorian type with emerging modern fonts. View more in @biodivlibrary with thanks to the USDA National Agriculture Library for digitizing.

Hey, it’s Type Tuesday again! Gothic paneled No.2 type, from the William H. Page company's 1874 book, “Specimens of Chromatic Wood Type, Borders, Etc.” Courtesy Columbia University, via the Internet Archive.

From "Elements of Lettering," by Frederic W. Goudy, 1922.

It’s #TypeTuesday again! We’re featuring another image from our current exhibit, Designed, Displayed, & Discarded: Ephemeral Printing in Alton, Illinois, 1835-1855. This advertisement for daguerreotypes includes printed hands, oftentimes called an index or a manicule, which point to and emphasize certain parts of the text. Hand-written manicules gained popularity around the Renaissance, when readers would draw hands pointing to parts of the text they wanted to highlight. Today, the index symbol is considered a standard typographical feature. Come see these manicules, currently on display at the RBML until May 31, 2018. 

We loved the modern type on this short sharp poem by Marianne Moore, published by her friend Monroe Wheeler. (We also love the backstory: word on the street is that Moore published this poem after being proposed to by the editor of The Dial, an influential literary journal to which Moore frequently contributed and would later become managing editor herself.) It's one of several poignant poems on marriage included on our new Women Poets tour, offered again this Friday. #typetuesday #letthemdowneasy [Marianne Moore, Manikin. New York: Monroe Wheeler, 1923. Collection of the Rosenbach.] (at Rosenbach Museum & Library)

Cover of New, Rare, and Beautiful Flowers (1888), the seed catalog of John Lewis Childs Co. from Floral Park, N.Y. Contributed for digitization by the LuEsther T. Mertz Library of The New York Botanical Garden (@nybg)

An original leaf from the 1499 Aldine Edition of "Scriptores Astronomici Veteres" printed by Aldus Manutius at Venice in 1499.