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Mengel,
Willi. Ottmar Mergenthaler and the Printing
Revolution. With an Introduction by Lin Yutang. Brooklyn:
Mergenthaler Linotype, 1954. 7x10" with 65 pages. Tan paper
boards darkened to resemble aged vellum with vellum spine and gilt
stamp of a press on front board. Gilt titles. Includes illustrations
of the development of linotype printing. Divided into three sections:
The Printing Industry Undergoes a Revolution; The Effort to Speed
Up Typesetting; and, Ottmar Mergenthaler Invents the Linotype. With
chronology of linotype history at the end. Hardcover, with color
tip-in of Mergenthaler as frontispiece. $25.00[Steptember Press]
Gill, Eric. A Book of Alphabets for Douglas Cleverdon drawn by Eric
Gill with a foreword by Douglas Cleverdon. Wellingborough: September
Press, 1987. 6.75x10.4", unpaginated. Introduction by John
Dreyfus. Text pages printed letterpress in Perpetua, drawn alphabet
printed litho. Limited 550 copies. Reproduction of this book of
alphabets drawn by Eric Gill for Cleverdon as an idea book for the
letters to be used in the production of a sign for Cleverdon's bookstore
in Bristol. Hardcover, halfbound with Curwen paper boards, in slip
case.
$125..
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