[Type Specimens]. Fonderia Tipgrafica Meridionale.

Serie Impero. Chiara. Scura. Nera . . . [cover title].

Napoli [Naples]: Fonderia Tipgrafica Meridoionale, Comm. A. De Luca, [ca. 1950]. Nested brochure on two leaves of card stock (9.88 x 6.38 inches), [8] pages. Quite foxed and a little dust-soiled; in good to very good condition. Item #21956

The Neopolitan version of Stempel’s Memphis, from the Italian foundry of Armando De Luca. See the Klinspor Museum list of Meridionale typefaces, which seem largely to have been copied and renamed from Lettergieteriij Amsterdam, ATF, Stempel and Monotype. Publication date taken from one of the sample display ads.

Price: $100.00