Pochi mesi prima di incorporarsi nella nascente American Type Founders Company (ATF) la MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan Co. di Philadelphia stampa nel 1892 il Compact Book os Specimens chiamata la “Twentieth issue from our Foundry” (la ventesima edizione della nostra fonderia tipografica).

Tale ricco campionario di caratteri di ben 512 pagine è conosciutissimo da tutti gli stampatori americani. Esso presenta un ricchissimo assortimento di caratteri e ornamenti tutti prodotti dalla fonderia che, per la bellezza di stile, originalità, e la durata, non possono essere eccelsi. La portabilità del libro permetteva di essere spedito per posta alle tipografie in luoghi lontani che altrimenti non potevano essere comodamente raggiunte. La serie di caratteri plain e fantasia illustrati in questo libro sono impaginati e visualizzati sul vecchio standard dei corpi e nel sistema a punti.

Esempio presente nello Specimen

Sono presenti i seguenti tipi (comprensivi di caratteri greci e ebraici) e simboli: Algebraic Signs, Almanac Signs, American, Anglo-Gothic, Angular Text, Antiquarian, Antique, Antique Condensed, Antique Extended, Antique Extra Condensed, Antique Open, Antique Pointed, Antique Tuscan Condensed, Aquatint, Arboret, Archaic, Artistic, Astronomical and Planetary Signs, Attic, Baskerville, Base Ball Cuts, Bijou, Billhead Logotypes, Bill-of-Fare Cuts, Bizarre, Black, Black Cap, Black Inlaid, Black Ornate, Black Ornate Shaded, Black Shaded, Boldface Borussian, Boldface Italic, Boldface Roman, Borussian, Brass Braces, Brass Centre Pieces, Brass Circles, Brass Curved Corners, Brass Ovals, Brass Rule, Strips, Brass Slotted and Mitred Corners, Broadgauge, Broadgauge Ornate, Broadgauge Shaded, Business Cuts, Byzantine, Cabalistic, Cafe and Carte du Jour Cuts, Cadmus, Cameo, Campanile, Cancelled Figures, Card logotypes, Card Ornaments, Card Text, Card Text Shaded, Caxtonian, Caxton Black, Celtic, Celtic Shaded, Celtic Single Shade, Chamfer Condensed, Chancel, Chapel Text, Chaucer, Check Blanks, Check Lines, Check Ornaments, Childs, Cimmerian, Circular Black, Clarendon, Cloister, Cloister Shaded, Columbian, Combination Borders, Combination Ornaments, Commercial Logotypes, Concave, Condensed, Condensed Black, Condensed Black Shaded, Condensed Clarendon, Condensed Cloister Shaded, Condensed Concave, Condensed German Title, Condensed Monastic, Condensed Runic, Condensed Title, Continental, Copperplate, Corners, Crayon, Crosier, Cruikshank Culdee, Dado, Dashes, Doric, Dynamo, Kastlake, Fdson, Engravers’ Italic, Esthetic, Eureka Shaded, Eureka Text, Extended, Extended Runic, Extra Condensed, Fancy Celtic, Fancy Text, Fancy Text Shaded, Fautail, Filigree, Fillet, Flourish-Ornaments, Frauconian, Franklin Shaded, French Clarendon, French Clarendon Extended, French Clarendon Extra Condensed, French Clarendon Italic, French Clarendon Shaded, Fresco, Gallic, Games and Diversions, German Open, German Ornamented, German Plain Faces, German Shaded, German Title, Giraffe, Giraffe Extended, Glyptic, Glyptic Shaded, Gothic, Gothic Condensed, Gothic Extended, Gothic Extra Condensed, Gothic Hairline, Gothic Ornamented, Gothic Ornate, Graphic Text, Greek, Greenback, Grolier, Gutenberg, Hairline Italic, Half-Title, Hansard, Hebrew, Horizontal, Illuminated, Imprint Gothic, Index Corners, Index Initials, Initial Letters, Interline, Ionic Shaded, Italic Copperplate, Italic Figures, Italic Gothic, Italic Gothic Condensed, Italic Inlaid, Italic Ornate, Italic title, Japanesque, Jenson, Johnson, Keystone, Keystone Open, Kitcat, Knobby, Koster, Labor-Saving Brass Leaders, Lacrosse, Lady Text, Latin Antique, Law Italic, Lightface, Lightface Celtic, Lightface Condensed, Lightface Extended, Lining Antique, Lining Gothic, Lining Gothic Extended, Lithographic Slope, Luray, Medallic, Medical Signs, Medieval, Medieval Text, Medieval Text. Ornate, Mezzotype, Minaret, Minster, Miscellaneous Cuts, Miscellaneous Signs, Missal, Modern Text, Monastic, Monastic Shaded, Monkish, Monumental, Mortised, Mortised Ornaments, Music, Newfangle, Newspaper Cuts, Newspaper Headings, Nymphic, Obelisk, Oblique, Oblique Shaded, Old Style Antique, Old Style Circular, Old Style Condensed, Old Style, Old Style Title, Old Style Two-Line Letter, Opaque Shaded, Ornamental Initial Letters, Ornamented, Oxonian, Parsee, Peaked, Pencraft, Phidian, Philadelphian, Pictorial, Piece Accents, Plain Shade, Pynson Queen-Anne Text, Bradford (Standard bodies), Binny (Standard bodies), MacKellar, Ronaldson, Standard bodies, Large job sizes, Point bodies, Radiant, Radiated, Railroad Cuts, Recherche, Recipe Marks, Relievo, Ringlet, Ripple Text , Romanesque, Ronaldson, Ronaldson Clarendon, Ronaldson Condensed, Ronaldson Extended, Ronaldson Gothic, Ronaldson Title Slope, Round Gothic, Roundhead, Round Shaded, Runic, Ruskin, Rustic, Saxon Ornate, Saxon Ornate Shaded, School Text, Script, Centennial, Script, Circular, Script, Compact, Script, Excelsior, Script, French, Script, Italic, Script, Master, Script, No. 9, Script, Queen-Bess, Script, Sansom, Script, Spencerian, Scrivener, Shadow, Signal Service Signs, Signs, Skeleton Antique, Skeleton Gothic Condensed, Slanting Shaded, Sloping Black, Sloping Black Shaded, Smithsonian, Special Figures and Fractions, Spiral, Standard Type-Writer, Stars, State Seals, Steelplate Gothic, Stencil, Stencil-Gothic, Stipple, Stylus, Tendril, Teutonic and Teutonic Extended,Teutonic Shaded, Teutonic Title, Teuton Text, Text Ornate, Tilted, Tinted, Title, Title Black, Title Black Shaded, Title Extended, Title Italic, Title Italic Open, Title Text, Title Text Open, Treasury, Treasury Open, Trojan, Tudoresque, Tuscan, Tuscan Antique, Tuscan Shaded, Typo, Unique, Unique Celtic, Zinco.

Esempi del Clarendon presenti nello Specimen

Esempi del Mortised presenti nello Specimen