Alphabetical Index to Type Faces, by G.A. Davis Printing Company; 1939?; Toronto.
An “Alphabetical Index to Type Faces” from the G.A. Davis Printing Company. What it says on the tin, but also generator of bizarre ‘accidental’ sentences such as “Summer-time with outdoor pleasures become flowers with nature”, “Domestic animals are nuisance when a hurry to men”, “Strong type faces used cold north winds” and the occasional poem: “History repeats itself as the years pass / Internal injuries are weakening / Injurious statements make yonder river flows fast”.
NB: The publishing date of 1900 given in the Open Library link appears to be incorrect, with some of the typefaces not being invented until the mid-30s. There is no indication of publishing date on the scanned copy itself, though there is a Library of Toronto stamp dated October 1939.
Open Library link
Letters From a Cat (1879) | Castaway on the Auckland Isles: A Narrative of the Wreck of the "Grafton," (1865) | Infant's Cabinet of Birds and Beasts (1820) | Old French Fairytales (1920) |
Armata: a fragment (1817) | An Account of the Late Improvements in Galvanism (1803) | The Medical Aspects of Death, and the Medical Aspects of the Human Mind (1852) | Quarles' Emblems (1886) |
Cat and bird stories from the "Spectator" (1896) | Wonderful Balloon Ascents (1870) | The Book of Topiary (1904) | The Adventures of Louis de Rougemont (1899) |
English as She is Spoke (1884) | The Danger of Premature Interment (1816) | The Last American (1889) | Pirates (1922) |
Napoleon's Oraculum (1839) | Horse Laughs (1891) | Hydriotaphia/Urn-Burial and The Garden of Cyrus (1658) | Across the Zodiac: the Story of a Wrecked Record (1880) |
Superstitions About Animals (1904) | The Diary of a Nobody (1919 edition) | The Attitudes of Animals in Motion, Illustrated with the Zoopraxiscope (1882) | The Eccentric Mirror: Reflecting a Faithful and Interesting Delineation of Male and Female Characters, Ancient and Modern (1807) |
Uriah Jewett and the Sea Serpent of Lake Memphemagog (1917) | Yuletide Entertainments (1910) | Mythical Monsters (1886) | Madame Tussaud's Napoleon Relics, Pictures and Other Curiosities (1901) |
James Joyce's Chamber Music (1918 American Edition) | Original acrostics on all the U.S. states and presidents, and various other subjects (1861) | Hand book of the carnival, containing Mardi-Gras, its ancient and modern observance (1874) | Selection of Type is just as important as the selection of words (1939?) |
Natural History of Shakespeare; Being Selections of Flowers, Fruits, and Animals (1877) |
