A Typographical Journey Through the Inland Printer, 1883-1900.
Baltimore: Maran Publishing Co., (1977),
First Edition. quarto, decorated cloth. 720pp. Maran Publishing Co., Item #31485
Illustrated with facsimiles of every extant type foundry's specimens of their newest types. Some of these type faces never again appeared in any publication or type catalogue. Reprints of the stories from the Inland Printer magazine, tracing the years of transition from hand typesetting to machine typesetting and including discussions of the equipment, labor problems, women's suffrage, tramp printers, work habits and drinking. With an interesting 8pp. introduction by Annenberg on the history of the " Inland Printer." The the complimentary book label of the American Printing History Association.
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