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Typographic Greatest Hits in Washington University in Saint Louis Special Collections ('Greatest' is clearly biased, incomplete, and subjective)
Cicero / De oratore / Spec PA6296 .D6 1569
http://catalog.wustl.edu:80/record=b1913504~S2
Cicero. De oratore. Manuscripts: Meissner Collection. #80
[Book of Hours] / Horae beatae Mariae virginis / France, late 15th century / Spec BX2080 .C25 1450
http://catalog.wustl.edu:80/record=b2783064~S2
[Printed Book of Hours] / Hore in laude gloriosissime virginis Maries / Spec BX2080 .R59 1532
http://catalog.wustl.edu:80/record=b1944669~S2
Die Buchkunst Gutenbergs und Schöffers, mit einem einleitenden Versuch über die Entwicklung der Buchkunst von ihren frühesten Anfängen bis auf die heutige Zeit Spec. Z126 G73 fol
http://catalog.wustl.edu:80/record=b1918349~S2
[Jenson] / Gallicus, Johannes / De humilitate interior et pacientia vera / Venetiis: Officina Nicolai Ienson, 1400 [i.e. 1480] / Spec BX3301.5 1480
http://catalog.wustl.edu:80/record=b2078726~S2
[Nuremberg Chronicle] / Schedel, Hartmann / Registrum huius operis libri cronicarum / Nuremberge: Anthonius Koberger, 1493 / Spec DD87 .L18 1493 fol.
http://catalog.wustl.edu:80/record=b2079390~S2
[Aldus] / Statius, P. Papinius / Statii Sylvarvm libri quinque: Thebaidos libri dvodecim: Achilleidos duo / [Venetiis: In Aedibvs Aldi, 1502] / Spec PA6697 .A2 1502
http://catalog.wustl.edu:80/record=b1911903~S2
[Aldus] / Euripides / Euripidis tragoediae septendecim/ Venetiis: Apud Aldum, 1503 / Spec PA3973 .A2 1503
http://catalog.wustl.edu:80/record=b2075341~S2
[Polyglot Bible] / Psalterium, Hebreum, Grecu[m], Arabicu[m], & Chaldeu[m] / [Genuae]: Impressit Petrus Paulus Porrus, 1516 / Spec BS1419 .A2 1516 4o
http://catalog.wustl.edu:80/record=b2073941~S2
[Baskerville] / Publii Virgilii Maronis Bucolica ; Georgica ; et Aeneis / Birminghamiae: Typis Johannis Baskerville, 1757 [i.e. 1771] / Spec PA6801 .A2 1757a 4o
http://catalog.wustl.edu:80/record=b1921616~S2
[Bodoni] / Valperga di Caluso, Tommaso / Didymi Taurinensis de pronunciatione divini Nominis / Parmae: Typis Bodonianis, 1799 / Spec BT180.N2 D5 1799
http://catalog.wustl.edu:80/record=b1910277~S2
[Kelmscott] / Chaucer, Geoffrey / The works of Geoffrey Chaucer / Hammersmith: Printed by me William Morris at the Kelmscott Press, 1896 / Spec PR1850 1896 fol.
http://catalog.wustl.edu:80/record=b2514486~S2
[Garamond] / Monotype Corporation / Garamond: a specimen of a classic face reproduced for use on the "monotype" / London: Printed by the Lanston Monotype Corporation, 1923 / Spec Z250 M658
http://catalog.wustl.edu:80/record=b1945970~S2
[Garamond] / Monotype Corporation / Garamond: a specimen of a classic letter reproduced in eight sizes for use on the "monotype" / London: Lanston Monotype Corporation, 1926 / Spec Z250 M66
http://catalog.wustl.edu:80/record=b1945971~S2
[Gill Sans] / Type specimen sheet (Backlog folio)
[Washburn College Bible] / Holy Bible: King James text: modern phrased version / New York: Oxford University Press, 1980 / Spec BS185 1980 .N48
http://catalog.wustl.edu:80/record=b2149739~S2
Noble fragment (Gutenburg leaf) Spec. BS399.L3 N49 1921 fol.
http://catalog.wustl.edu:80/record=b2703770~S2
Doves Press Bible BS185 1903 .H3 4o v.1
http://catalog.wustl.edu:80/record=b2676157~S2
Specimen of modern printing types / by Edmund Fry, Letter Founder to the King, Type Street Z250 F797
http://catalog.wustl.edu:80/record=b2064124~S2
Specimens of diverse characters / by Russell Maret. N7433.4.M357 S74 2011 fol.
http://catalog.wustl.edu:80/record=b4695651~S2
Typefoundries in the Netherlands: Z250 .E62 1908 4o
http://catalog.wustl.edu:80/record=b1904399~S2
Arnold NK3631 D6 A3 ABC Kästchen by Max Dorn
http://catalog.wustl.edu:80/record=b1914736~S2
Z250 H23 The Hammer Creek Press type specimen book by John Fass
http://catalog.wustl.edu:80/record=b1916383~S2
NE2246.D73 A4 1990 4o Aminals / monoprints by Catherine Drabkin by Catherine Drabkin
http://catalog.wustl.edu:80/record=b2563554~S2
Alexander Wilson and Sons., Specimen of modern printing types, cast
at the letter foundry of Alex. Wilson & Sons, Glasgow. Z250 .W5 4o
http://catalog.wustl.edu:80/record=b1926026~S2
Greenwood Press., Janson : a definitive collection, Z250 G746
http://catalog.wustl.edu:80/record=b1923053~S2
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