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The following Liberty-related scans from English language publications came from a variety of sources:
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| Advertisement from the 1874 Bruce and Sons (New York) type catalog. (From scan by Mike Powers.) | Advertisement from the September, 1887, issue of Inland Printer. | First page of an article about new features on the "noiseless" Liberty from the October, 1888, Inland Printer. |
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| Second page of article from the October, 1888, Inland Printer. | Third page of article from the October, 1888, Inland Printer. | Last page of article from the October, 1888, Inland Printer. |
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| First page of ad in 1889 Union Type Foundry (Chicago) specimen book. (Scan provided by Steve Saxe.) | Second page of ad in 1889 Union Type Foundry specimen book. (Scan provided by Steve Saxe.) | Advertising for the Liberty in the December 27, 1890, issue of Typo, an Australian magazine. (From New Zealand Electronic Text Centre Web site.) |
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| A page from the 1881 catalog of H. Jullien, a Belgian company. This Liberty look-alike, ``Le Progres,'' is from Pierron & Dehaitre of Paris, France. | A page from the 1885 H. Jullien catalog. Although it's not labeled as a genuine Liberty, the picture looks like one used in earlier Degener & Weiler ads (except for the missing pressman and extra decoration on the counter-weight). | A page from the 1887 H. Jullien catalog. This Liberty knock-off is a different style from the one in the 1881 catalog. |
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| An advertisement in book of 1892 titled Het Boek in Onze Dagen ("The Book in Our Days"?) written by R. Van der Meulen. | An ad out of the Belgian printing magazine les Annales de l'Imprimerie from January 1902. | An ad from the August 1904 issue of les Annales de l'Imprimerie. |
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| An ad out of a Belgian printing magazine, De Druknijverheid, dated March 1906. | This 1910 ad comes from a German printing magazine, Typographische Jahrbücher. The text with the picture, "neues modell, mehrwalzensystem," means "new model, system with more rollers". Notice there are 5 ink rollers in the picture. | This scan comes from a 1902 catalogue of printing presses from the firm Bohn & Herber of Würzburg, Germany. |
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| Another scan from the Bohn & Herber 1902 catalogue shows the "Frankonia" press, a significant redesign of the original Liberty. | This non-Degener/Weiler ad is from the August 1904 issue of les Annales de l'Imprimerie. | This Liberty look-alike press is shown in the 1905 Van Loey-Nouri catalog. |
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| Taken from a catalogue of printing presses from the firm "actiengesellschaft für Schriftgiessereie und maschinenbau" of Offenbach am Main, Germany. The catalogue is from about 1910. | This A. Vanderborght & Dumont ad from 1910 shows a Liberty press manufactured by F.M. Weiler's Liberty Machine Works. |
Julianna Füzesné Hudák of the Kner Museum in Gyomaendrõd, Hungary, provided the following Liberty-related scans from Hungarian publications:
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| Title page from the August, 1886, (Volume 3) issue of Gaphicai Közlöny [Typography Journal] published in Budapest. Left column is Hungarian, right is German. | Another page from the August, 1886, issue of Gaphicai Közlöny. | Page 1 of the Budapest publication Magyar Nyomdászat [Hungarian Printing] dated September, 1888; Volume 1, Number 7. |
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| Page 103 from the September, 1888, Magyar Nyomdászat. | An advertisement for the J. Anger & Sons Liberty press can be seen at the top of page 175 in the January, 1889, (Volume 1, Number 11) issue of Magyar Nyomdászat. | Advertising for the Liberty on page 4 of a 1907 Magyar Garfikus [Hungarian Graphic] published in Budapest. Machine factory: Bernhardt G. Sons; Representation in Hungary: Ligeti and Co., Budapest. |
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