Typo: typographical wonder of the 19th century

Typo
A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review [1887-1897]

One significant project that we've recently made available online is Robert Coupland Harding's magazine Typo.

Typo was the product of one man, Coupland Harding, who did the editorial work, much of the writing, and the composition and printing.

Dr Sydney Shep goes into much more detail about Robert Coupland Harding and his magazine Typo in her introduction. As Sydney mentions, it is "a landmark in New Zealand printing and publishing, famous in its time, then forgotten, and now re-discovered."

There's some fantastic material in Typo, both pictorial and textual, and this is the first of a series of posts where I'll surface some of the interesting bits and peices we've noticed while working on this collection.

Below is a selection of some of my favourite pages from Typo, and these are only scratching the surface.

And you thought WingDings was cool...

Cover of vol I	Cover of vol III	Ornaments	Optical illusions
Cover advertising	Cover of vol IV	Type ribbons	Lyon & Blair souvenir
A typographic fantasy	Type specimens	Second-hand job founts	Cover of vol VI
Type specimens	Ex-cathedra	Cover of volume seven	Type specimens
Type specimens	Cover of vol VIII	Cover of vol XI	Type specimens