Type and type-founding

Date: 1962

By: Express Typesetting Service Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-PRINTING-1962-01

Description: Sales catalogue showing samples of many type faces, and a price list dated 1 March 1962. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of approx 100 leaves, in black cover 175 x 245 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Webb's, 2005.

Date: [1967?]-1989

From: HART Aotearoa: Collection

By: Hanly, Gillian Mary, 1934?-

Reference: MS-Papers-12693-05

Description: Comprises material related to the publishing of 'Amandla' and the subject title "Fists/Militancy". Folder contains magazine and newspaper clippings and Letraset type transfers. Also contains photographic prints showing Halt All Racist Tours activities, taken by various photographers including Gil Hanly. Title taken from item. Arrangement: Material arrived at Library in an accordian file and within section "E". Material arranged by Halt All Racist Tours in to a subject file labelled "Fists/Militancy". Quantity: 1 folder(s) 43 pieces. Transfers: Prints PAColl-10817 - Negatives at 35mm-120940 to 35mm-120951. Processing information: Prints and negatives separated for reasons of preservation and storage.

Date: 1905 - 1907

By: A Gyles & Sons Ltd; Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014

Reference: Eph-A-PRINTING-1906-01

Description: Price list of rubber stamp style specimens, ink pads, dating stamps, rubber type faces, oval rectangular and circular labels. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 16 pages, 246 x 184 mm. Provenance: Donated by Dr Les Cleveland, Wellington, in 1965.

Date: [1980s?]

From: HART Aotearoa: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-12693-20

Description: Comprises material related to the publication 'Amandla' and the subject file "General". Folder contains materials used for layout of the magazine: - Paper label "General" - Three cartidges of 'Letraset' design tape. - One partially used set of transferrable type, 'Rexel Lettacard No. 28', with 'Whicoulls' price sticker attached. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Material originally arranged by subject in accordian file section "XYZ" with Halt All Racist Tours subject heading ". Quantity: 1 folder(s) 5 pieces.

Date: 1930 - 1939

By: Hutcheson Bowman & Johnson Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-PRINTING-Hutcheson-1900s-01

Description: Booklet containing samples of typesetting, used in wise quotations, and poems by: Stopford Brooke "The heart of man" Longfellow "Inspiration" George Eliot "The choir invisible" "Throughout this year" - words of a prayer engraved on Robert Louis Stevenson's memorial in Edinburgh "This brevity!" - complaint about the difficulty of reading a paragraph of brief shorthand spellings Emerson "Character" Henry Lewis Bullen. "Market value of brains in printing" Abraham Lincoln "The railsplitter's philosophy" Emerson on Friendship Date estimated from the company's address, 15 Tory Street, which was advertised in newspapers in the 1930s. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklet, 240 x 200 mm.

Date: 1960 - 1979

Reference: Eph-B-PRINTING-1960/1979

Description: Includes: 1960s: Wellington Typesetters Limited, 9-15 Haining Street. Revised edition of our type catalogue, introducing our new series "Life" [plus two loose sheets on Univers, and Press Roman type] 1960: Pilgrim Press job envelope 24 March 1960 1963: Wright & Carman Ltd. Envelope [1963] 1964: Wellington Master Printers Association Inc. Minutes of AGM, 23 November 1964; and memo to members 6 December 1964 1966: Flier about Kees Hos [1966?] 1967: Print Council of New Zealand. Flier / membership application form [1967] 1970s: Association of Handcraft Printers of New Zealand. from the profiles [1970s?] Flier 1974: Auckland Public Library. Rare Books Room. William Caxton, first English printer. Quingentenary exhibition [1974]. Display card by Holloway Press A Gyles & Sons Ltd. Gylespack; try us - we've got what it takes! [ca 1974] New Zealand Printing and Related Trades Industrial Union of Workers. Printing trades employees award; Wage adjustment order 1974 Wright & Carman Ltd. Orleans Bold sample pamphlet [1974?] 1977: New Zealand Institute of Printing Inc. What's new overseas affecting our industry? Sorrento, Monday 5th September 1977, One Tree Hill Domain. Flier Sidney Cooke Graphics Limited. Used machinery for sale 1979: Wellington Media Collection. Information sheet June 1979 Bryce Francis Ltd. EditWriter typefaces [1979] (stapled to Wellington Book Collective newsletter) Sidney Cooke Chemicals Pty Ltd. Firecrest living colour [ink]. 1979? Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints, sizes varying up to 330 mm.

Date: 1987

By: R W Stiles & Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-PRINTING-1987-01

Description: Catalogue shows examples of the following type faces: Trimvirant Light, Trimvirant Medium, Trimvirant Italic, Trimvirant Bold, Trimvirant Condensed, Cheltenham Medium, Cheltenham Italic, Cheltenham Bold, Souvenir Medium, Souvenir Italic, Souvenir Bold, Murray. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 12 pages, 297 x 206 mm.

Date: [1952-1958]

From: Chan, Lionel Lai-hung, 1919- : Papers

Reference: 97-050-3/01

Description: Papers relating to the NZ Chinese Growers' publication including receipts and correspondence re running of the journal. Includes matters such as type face and the importation thereof, invoices (1952-1958), cartage, return re production and acreage, Public Trust letter re death of Ah Hone (1948) and price lists. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1900 - 1920

Reference: Curios-032-004

Description: Large brass type Templates for cutting type Quantity: 1 curio(s). Physical Description: Set of type, brass, in 2 wooden trays, 310 x 440 x 15 mm Provenance: Acquired by the Chief Librarian, ca 1980

Date: 1903

By: P F Colledge & Sons

Reference: Eph-A-STATIONERY-1903-01

Description: Price list of rubber stamp specimen founts of type, self-inking presses, metal mounts, hand numerators, hand daters, "Rapid" printer, "Air cushion" rubber stamp, multiplex stamp, watch chain stamp, "Universal" castor racks, ink pads. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 32 pages, each 180 x 122 mm.

Date: 1955

By: Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd

Reference: Eph-D-PRINTING-1955-01

Description: A poster showing the processes of typesetting, type cast, the platen, the cylinder principle, a stop-cylinder machine, how books are bound, binding machines, the printing of pictures by half-tone, coloured pictures, the printing company organisation. The text of this poster was written by Denis Glover (Manuscript text is at MS Papers 0418 folder 127) Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset lithograph, on sheet 732 x 475 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Smiths Bookshop in September 2002.

Date: 2009

Reference: Eph-G-PRINTING-2009-01/22

Description: Posters with examples of text and alphabets by typeface designers, including: Joseph Churchward, Robert Coupland Harding, Tom Elliott, Mark Geard, Maarten Ideema, Narrow Gauge, Warren Olds, Bruce Rotherham, Shabnam Shiwan, Kris Sowersby, Luke Wood, Jack Yan. Quantity: 22 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs, 1190 x 840 mm.

Reference: D-008-006

Description: Shows alphabet in capital letters, and numerals, symbols and incidentals. Appears to have been copied from page 122 of a book. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photocopy, 920 x 697 mm. Provenance: Acquired before 1985.

Date: 1915 - 1988 - 1922

By: Black Light Press (Lower Hutt, N.Z.); Quilters Bookshop

Reference: G-404

Description: Shows three excerpts from two of Katherine Mansfield's journals and one of her letters, written between 1915 and 1922. The texts were chosen and edited by Margaret Scott. Limited edition of 26 copies. This is copy N. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Relief print broadside, 370 x 540 mm.

Date: [1960-1970]

From: Chan, Lionel Lai-hung, 1919- : Papers

Reference: fMS-Papers-5849-4

Description: Includes flyers for Rapid Typing & Duplicating Service (Wellington) (1967) and JSL Wire Stitcher of Fushing Engineering Co Ltd (Taiwan), Hua Nan Type foundry Co (Taiwan); `The Printing industry in NZ, processes and opportunities' by the Federation of Master Printers of NZ (nd); promotion sheet for Hua Nan automatic type casters and printing machines; Handy specimen of printing types (Universal Type Founders, Hong Kong (1961, 1967); automatic paper cutters of Fushing Engineering Co; letter from Fushing Engineering Co (Taiwan) (1968) Language - Much in Chinese script Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1981

Reference: Eph-B-BOOK-ARTS-1981-01

Description: Describes various styles of lettering suitable for hand writing. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of [4] pages, and 6 leaves, in light card covers, spiral bound, 323 x 210 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Smiths Books 2002 catalogue, item 153, in 2002.

Date: 1985 - 1995

By: Auckland Typographic Services Ltd

Reference: Eph-G-PRINTING-1987-01

Description: Shows one-line examples of some 800 to 1000 type faces, interspersed with coloured illuminated capitals. In the centre is reproduced a fragment of the lettering on the base of the Trajan Column in Rome, completed in 113 A.D. At the lower right is an explanation of the Linotron process, and an indication of other letterings available. Two copies held. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 857 x 1260 mm.

Date: 1930 - 1960

By: New Zealand free lance (Newspaper)

Reference: Eph-B-PRINTING-1900s-01

Description: 103 leaves of type specimens, including duplicates. Type faces represented are sizes from 6 pt to 72 point. Typefaces include: Granby (bold, condensed), Balloon, Westminster, Outline, Times Roman, Canberra Bold, Canberra Bold Condensed, Condensed Sans Serif, Granby Light, Metroblack, Gothic, Caslon itlaic, Caledonia Bold, Excelsior, Excelsior italic, Ultra Bodoni, Granby Elephant, Grotesque no. 9, Grotesque 9 Italic. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Offset lithographs on loose pages, 262 x 190 mm, in ringbinder. Provenance: Purchased from Smiths Books 2002 catalogue, item 357, in 2002.

Date: 1989

By: Mauger, Stan, active 1970-1980s; Artspec Imaging (Firm)

Reference: Eph-E-GRAPHIC-ARTS-1989-01

Description: Shows an inset section showing a violin and sections of typeface in the background. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on poster. Physical Description: Offset print on sheet 840 x 595 mm. Provenance: Donated by Hamish Thompson in 2003.

Date: 1926

From: Jones, Frederick Nelson, 1881-1962 :Negatives of the Nelson district

Reference: 1/1-009419-G

Description: Unidentified typesetting workshop with linotype machines, photographed in 1926 by Frederick Nelson Jones, probably in the Nelson district. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negatives