[Mergenthaler Linotype Company]: LINOTYPE FACES [One-Line Specimens 1920]. Brooklyn: Mergenthaler Linotype Company, November 1920. Original edition. Quarto. Decorated red cloth. Printed endpapers. 220 pp. Type specimens and typographic recommendations. Interior unmarked, bright and very clean. Out-of-print. Lightly handled, but a fine copy.
7.75 x 10.75 hardcover book with 220 pages of different designs in multiple point sizes plus special figures, fractions and accents. This "Manual of Linotype Typography" places before . . . printers pages based on the best typographic standards of today, presented with the greatest possible variety in order to promote versatility, and accompanied by explanatory remarks. Thus the composing-room force has opportunity to copy something really good and do it with understanding."
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Ottmar Mergenthaler (1854–1899) demonstrated the first linecasting machine to the editors of the New York Tribune in 1886. Four years later, the inventor of the type setting machine founded the Mergenthaler Linotype Company. Major newspapers around the world quickly adopted this machine. The “Line-o-type” provided a new freedom in the creation of everything printed from newspapers to books, from advertisements to a wide range of literature. Before typesetting referred to more than making selections from a pull-down menu, Mergenthaler’s Linotype machine provided typesetters and designers with a previously-unknown level of freedom for envisioning the printed word.
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