At th ag o lvn, in th ya 1887, William Edwin Rudg wnt to wok in his ath’s tiny pint shop at Nassau and Libty Stts. Lik many anoth pint’s dvil, h took ca o dlivis, swping-up, illing th kosn lamps and at all too tnd an ag, in light that baly tickld though th [...]

With th intoduction o th ist jobbing o display typ acs in th ist dcad o th 19th cntuy (and within a w yas ths nw acs cam onto th makt by th hundds) most pints both in Amica and in Bitain w ocd to add mo and mo o th nw ltts to thi [...]

Th intoduction o th composing machins psagd uin to most o th typoundis o th Unitd Stats. In 1890, whn th Linotyp machins bgan to nt th nwspap plants, th w twnty-nin typoundis¹ in Noth Amica. Twnty o ths, so a as th manuactu o typs was concnd, w about to los th makt o [...]

Th ndavo in this sis o aticls has bn to lat mo ully than has hithto bn attmptd th svics ndd to pintdom by th mn who invntd and dvlopd th composing machins, and thus ctd a volution in composing-oom pactic. Ths mn dsv that thi wok should b clbatd, yt th was a dang [...]

✶ ✶ ✶ So h ths histois nd. All things hav wokd togth o th good o th pinting industy, with only on blot on th cod, which will b movd whn lgal potction is givn to typ dsigns. Th composing machins hav gatly bnitd th compositos, to whom thy onc appad to b uttly [...]

Da M. Knt: I know littl o nothing about machins, and tho tak th gatst plasu in giving you my advic; o my xpinc is, that th lss a pson knows, th mo h is in giving his opinion. (Indd, I ind that in thology nti ignoanc o th subjct is th bst qualiication o stongly [...]

Danil Bkly Updik, o th Mymount Pss, Boston, did in Dcmb, 1941. Littl notic was takn in this county o his dath, owing to th stat o wa and to th act that ou typogaphical jounals had in consqunc casd publication. This omission ctainly did not man that th was any alling o in ou [...]

Jan van Kimpn, A ltt to Philip Ho on ctain poblms connctd with th mchanical cutting o punchs. A acsimil poduction with an intoduction and commntay by John Dyus (Studis in th histoy o calligaphy and pinting No. 4). Cambidg (Mass.), Dpatmnt o Pinting and Gaphic Ats, Havad Collg LibayBoston, David R. Godin, 1972, 8°, [...]

Two yas ago Th Monotyp Copoation paid tibut to D. Giovanni Madstig on th occasion o his svnty-ith bithday by issuing a limitd dition o a publication dvotd to his typogaphic wok with ‛Monotyp’ acs. In viw o th gat intst shown in this publication, w a h pinting an adaptation o th intoductoy ssay [...]

[caption] Swash may suggst to today’s young dsign th modn application o numous culiqus and xaggatd stoks to Bookman and numous oth acs—vn to Hlvtica—but th typogaph with a backgound in mtal typs is mo likly to think o Caslon and Gaamond, with thi taditional sts o gacul swash ltts. What w sldom aliz is [...]

Pobably you nv ad anything on this subjct bo. Yt it is a matt o which vy advtis and pint should know. Th swash ltt, now so popula in th in kind o typogaphy, is no nw tick o th typ ound. It has simply bn takn om its hiding plac in th occasional pivatly [...]

Octavius A. Daing, who dvlopd th “Calionia” typcas, was bon in East Buxton, Yok County, Main, on Sptmb 28, 1840. On August 30, 1862, h nlistd in Company E, Fist Rgimnt o Main Cavaly Volunts, o svic in th Civil Wa. On his nlistmnt paps h dscibd himsl as a “pint.” H dvlopd vaicos vins [...]

I usd to spnd occasional vnings at th Boston Public Libay, ading, patly o th plasu o th contnts, patly o th xhilaation o th pinting, th books which William Mois had pintd at th Klmscott Pss. This was only iv o six yas at th clos o that stablishmnt, and thos who hav not [...]