American Type Founders - Garamond

A Showing of Garamond italic and its Accessories. 4to, 31cm, 11p, American Type Founders Company, Sold by C.W. Shortt & co, High Holborn, n.d. (c.1920).

Set in Garamond italic, printed in blue and black with Cleland Ornaments, and displaying Cleland's Swash Characters. Overlapping cream paper wrappers, titled in black, decorated in blue. A near fine copy.

The American Typefounders Garamond type was the earliest of the many modern versions, being designed in 1917 by M.F.Benton and T.M.Cleland after the original Jannon types.