Linotype - METRO [Type Specimen/Broadsheet]

Publisher: Linotype & Machinery Limited
Publication: 1937, First Edition
Binding: Softcover, saddle-stitch
Pages: 4
Size: 185 x 245 opening to 370 x 490
Text: English

Lintotype Jubilee, a type face designed for newspaper, periodicals, and general composition. Designed in 1953 by Walter Tracy. (Introduction) 'The appearance of Jubilee, the new Linotype face for newspaper and periodical text, is a notable typographic event. It is the first original newspaper text face to be devised in this country for twenty-three years; the first, in fact, since Times Roman (1932). Do not conclude from this that Linotype & Machinery Ltd are presenting Jubilee as a latter-day competitor with Times...'

Condition: Very Good. Shelf ware consistent with age. Light rubbing to cover/edges.

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