Title: Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 11, Issue 1–2 (January–February 1897)

Editor: Robert Coupland Harding

Publication details: Robert Coupland Harding, 27 February 1897, Wellington

Part of: Typo

License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 New Zealand Licence

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A number of notices under the head « Type Specimens » are held over. We expect to be able to show some popular American faces in an early issue.

We have to acknowledge receipt of a large and handsome specimen book from the American Typefounders' Company, as well as smaller books showing the Cushing types and other specialties of the Company. A fuller notice is deferred. We shall probably, in an early issue, be able to show some of the later designs of the associated foundries of the United States.

« Years ago, » says an English writer, « when I was reading for the Indian Civil Service, I went to a fashionable bookseller in Westbourne-grove, and told him to get me the 'Pax' of Aristophanes. A few days later I called, and he informed me that he had sent to Goodall and De la Rue, but they had no cards of the game I had ordered! »