Editor: J. Abbott Miller
Publisher: Jersey City Museum
Publication: 1992, First Edition
Binding: Softcover, saddle-stitch
Pages: 20
Size: 215 x 280
Text: English
An exhibition and publication to celebrate the centennial of the American Type Founders Company, 1892-1992
Contents:
- Table of Contents
- Introduction, Nina Jacobs
- A Natural History of Natural History, Julia Reinhard Lupton
- Typographic Bestiary, Charles Nix
- The Language of Flowers, Julia Reinhard Lupton
- The Body of the Book, Ellen Lupton
- A Natural History of Typography, J. Abbott Miller and Ellen Lupton
- Bibliography
(Foreword) 'In 1892, twenty-three type foundries across the United States consolidated their assets and employees into a single firm called the American Type Founders Company (ATF) at a time when type founding as a skill was clearly passing into history. Type production had become more mechanized during the century, but had always been in the hands of foundrymen. In 1886, Ottmar Mergenthaler put typefounding within reach of every newspaper composing room when his linotype machine went into use at the New York Tribune. Using a keyboard, the operator set type one line at a time, negating the need to mold and set type one letter at a time, as had been done since Gutenberg invented movable type. As a result, the foundries where type was made for big-city newspapers and small print shops were thrown into chaos. The price of foundry type plummeted as manufacturers tried to undercut their competition...'
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