These beautiful, simple stationery sets are printed by hand in limited runs at the Cary Collection, drawing from our historical collection of metal and wood type. Sheets are blank, with a color illustration at top. Colors may vary. 4 sheets with envelopes.

Manuale Zapficum, the new limited edition book, commemorates the ninetieth birthdays of typographers Hermann Zapf and Gudrun Zapf von Hesse through beautiful typeface specimens set in homage to the classic design of Hermann Zapf's masterpiece, his 1968 Manuale Typographicum. The 20 specimen designs in the book are based upon quotes about the couple's oeuvre, each typeset in Zapf faces and letterpress printed by several of the Zapfs' colleagues.

The four pamphlets in the letterpress printed set includes Clay in the Potter's Hand by Jan Tschichold, Errors of the Press ch. XVIII from Correct Composition by Therodore Low De Vinne, An Older Typophile in the Nineties: A Typophile Keepsake by Alexander Lawson, and Relief Printing Rollers by Lee Engdahl.

Indulge in sending beautiful holiday greetings. Your friends and family will cherish these cards that have been privately letterpress-printed at the Cary Graphic Arts Collection. Eight different cards each have a unique, non-denominational sentiment that is elegantly typeset and printed on Rives paper. Includes envelopes.

Indie Fonts 3: Independent type designers have devoted their talents to producing fresh new fonts that can give your designs a major boost.

Indie Fonts 3 provides a showcase collection of over 1900 diverse fonts from 20 of today's most eclectic digital type foundries and features the best work of these designers. Indie Fonts 3 along with the original Indie Fonts and Indie Fonts 2 will help you find some of the highest quality fonts available today.

Do the words Palatino, Optima, and Melior resonate in your mind? How about Zapf Dingbats or Zapfino? If so, you surely recognize Hermann Zapf as one of the most influential type designers of the twentieth century. Collected here in this CD-ROM are 200 full-color digital reproductions of works spanning the past 60 years of Zapf's rich career.

"Spend Your Alphabets Lavishly,"—a quote from Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables—aptly describes the lifework of two principal figures in contemporary graphic arts: Hermann and Gudrun Zapf. The Zapfs' 50-year relationship with Rochester Institute of Technology is feted in this exhibition and catalogue, sponsored by RIT’s Melbert B. Cary, Jr. Graphic Arts Collection. The show presents rare holdings of Zapf materials held at the Cary Collection—the foremost Zapf archive outside of Germany.

Sure to appeal to all typophiles, this poster elucidates the history of the job case, summarizes letterform nomenclature, and provides useful typeface classification examples. Printed with custom-mixed inks, it will find a welcome home in print shops, design studios, and libraries.

Reproduced from an origional lithographic plate in P. Fleury, Nouvel Album de Letters Peintes. Paris: Libraries-Imprimeries Reunis, 1903. Held at the Melbert B. Cary, Jr. Graphic Arts Collection.

Cards printed in color on front, blank inside.

8 cards, 2 each of 4 designs with envelopes.

Chromatic Wood Type

This beautifully printed typographic arrangement appears in one of the rarest wood type catalogs of the 19th century. Specimens of Chromatic Wood Type, Borders, &c., Manufactured by Wm. H. Page & Co. Greenville, Conn., 1874. Held in the Melbert B. Cary, Jr. Graphic Arts Collection.