Price list and printers' purchasing guide
Subtitle: showing specimens of printing type manufactured by Marder, Luse & Co., foundry, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
Contributors: Conkey, W. B., binder; American Type Founders Company. Typographic Library and Museum
Publisher: Marder, Luse & Co. Foundry
Published: 1893
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 641
Subjects: Catalogs; Printing; Specimens; Type and type-founding; History; Printing machinery and supplies; Type ornaments; Printers' ornaments; Engraving; Marder, Luse & Co
Other titles: Specimen book and price list, Marder, Luse & Co. foundry; Type specimen book
Notes: At head of title: Chicago type foundry.

Includes index.

Preface dated July 1, 1893, signed by John W. Marder, manager, Marder, Luse & Co. Foundry.

The last specimen book issued by this foundry, which merged with the American Type Founders Company in 1892.

Rare Book copies 1 and 2: From the Typographic Library and Museum of the American Type Founders Company, with its bookplate.

Rare Book copy 2: Presented by C.C. Marder, Esq.

Annenberg, M. Type foundries of America, p. 192

Rare Book copy 1: Bound in full limp red leather with "Specimen book and price list" and name of type foundry in gilt on front cover; marbled endpapers.

Rare Book copy 2: Extra-bound in full red leather; gold-stamped with blue and black onlays; "Type" on front cover and spine; separate textile pastedowns with red leather gold-tooled frames. Signed by W.B. Conkey Company.