Type specimen booklets and associated materials, [ca. 1920-1938].

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Type specimen booklets and associated materials, [ca. 1920-1938].

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Specimen booklets produced for the firm's customers dating from the 1930s which illustrate typefaces available on the Linotype composing machine and show the various point sizes, styles, etc. for each face. Types available included Linotype versions of Baskerville, Caslon, Elzevir and Janson. Also miscellaneous copies of The Linotype bulletin from the 1920s.

45 items (1 box)

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Mergenthaler Linotype company

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The period from 1825 on saw the development of composing machines that would speed the process of typesetting in the face of vastly increased demand for books in Europe and the United States. About 300 had been patented by the time Ottmar Mergenthaler (1854-1899) introduced his version in 1886. The German immigrant had worked in a Baltimore machine shop for a decade while perfecting a machine that used small brass matrixes with impressions of the letterforms, etc. and melted lead to cast slugs b...