George Bruce’s Son & Co. Followed by 168 pp. The Invention of Printing: A Collection of Facts and Opinions. Illustrated in B&W with type faces and electrotyped ornaments. What the up-to-date 19th-century printer needed– examples of every style to suit every taste in reading. In fact, the bookplate inside the front cover shows this is from the collection of well-known Providence, R. Printers, the brothers Reid– J. Bruce boasts in the front matter, “We keep on hand the largest stock of type in the country, ” amply shown in the pages that follow. His picture is tissue-guard protected opposite the title page. He also added, “Do Not Cut up this Book, ” but printer’s, devils that they are, paid no heed, so a few holes pop up here and there. Page tops are uncut with paper rather dry and wrinkled with some light water staining. Some gutter splitting near front of book. Boards (very shelf-worn) appear to have been eggplant purple at one time but have turned quite dark, with leading edge on front cover black. Gilt lettering there and on spine, which has dried to the point where said cover has separated and spine covering has fallen off, though still present. Endpapers green-and-white leaf design. The item “Specimens of Printing Types Made at Bruce’s New-York Type-Foundry (1882)” is in sale since Saturday, June 30, 2018. This item is in the category “Business & Industrial\Printing & Graphic Arts\Printing & Graphic Essentials\Books & Manuals”. The seller is “gryphon-gallery” and is located in Detroit, Michigan. This item can be shipped worldwide.