Exposition de 1839, médaille d'argent
Contributors: American Type Founders Company. Typographic Library and Museum; Typothetae of the City of New York
Publisher: Fonderie de Marcellin-Legrand et Cie., Rue du Cherche-Midi, 99
Published: 1842
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 17
Subjects: Catalogs; Type and type-founding; Specimens; History; Fonderie de Marcellin-Legrand et Cie
Notes: Title from wrapper

Date on wrapper is 1839, but plates contain specimens from the years 1839, 1840, and 1842

Rare Book copy: Original front wrapper bound in.

Rare Book copy: Includes 18 additional leaves of plates, likely issued separately and bound in, containing specimens of type, ornaments, and vignettes, dated between 1830 and 1841.

Rare Book copy: From the Typographic Library and Museum of the American Type Founders Company, with its bookplate. With ownership label of the Typothetae of the City of New York, stating that the book "was intrusted with other type specimen books to the Typographic Library and Museum ... March, 1912."

Rare Book copy: Bound in half brown leather with marbled paper sides; "Fonderie de Marcellin-Legrand et Cie epreuves des caracteres, Paris, 1835, 1839, 1840, 1842" in gilt on spine; marbled endpapers.