Monotype: A Journal of Composing Room Efficiency

Vol. 1, No. 1 (April 1913)

Includes: Specimen of Monotype Series 172. The Monotype School. A notice that Monotype matrices are not to be used on the Thompson Type-Caster. Obituary for Tolbert Lanston

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Vol. 1, No. 2 (May 1913)

Includes: Monotype Baseball Figures (and punches), 12 Pt No. 132; see pp. 23 & 30. [See also Vol. 8, No. 1 (April 1920): 6] New Monotype Faces: 6/8/10/12 Pt No. 60K, 6/8/10/12 Pt No. 68K, 8/10 Pt No. 69J, and 10 Pt No. 117K. Attacks on slugline composition and promotion of the Monotype in the newspaper market.

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Vol. 1, No. 3 (June-July 1913)

Includes: Explanation and defense of unit system. New book announcement, Operating the Monotype Keyboard. New keyboard paper spool guide.

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Vol. 1, No. 4 (Aug. 1913)

This number presents a puzzle. The NYPL binding for volumes 1 and 2 of this journal separates most of the covers from their issues and places them at the end of the bound volume. The front and back of the cover for Vol. 1, No. 4 are present there (and in the Google/Hathi digitization). However, the actual content of No. 4 seems to be missing. Moreover the pagination between No. 3 (ending on p. 64) and No. 5 (starting on an un-numbered p. 65 and continuing to p. 66) is continuous. Thus, the PDF linked here contains only the cover.

Vol. 1, No. 5 (Sept. 1913)

Includes: Dating of Monotype Machine No. 288 to October 1901; "more than five thousand Monotypes are now in operation all over the world". Specimens of New Monotype Faces, Borders and Ornaments (10/12 Pt No. 69J, 10 Pt No. 102J, 8/10/12 Pt No. 113KJ, 6/8/12 Pt No. 117K, 6/8/12 Pt No. 145J; ornaments 220, 221, 225, 226, 232, 234, 235, 239, 241, 244/245, 246, 248, 252, 257/258, 258 alone, 256, 262, 264, 266, 268, 270, 271). A Monotype Machinist-Operator in Piqua, OH

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Vol. 1, No. 6 (Oct. 1913)

Includes: New faces: No. 113J, No. 138J, No. 275J. More newspaper promotion. Suggestions to the hand compositor that the Monotype represents a viable career path which they should promote to their employer.

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Vol. 1, No. 7 (Nov. 1913)

Includes: Reprint of MacKellar article on "A Simple and Equitable System for Measuring Type Composition" in roundabout support of the Monotype unit system. Cellular ornaments 56, 321, 378, 582, and various sorts matrices for trademarks and monographs. New Monotype faces: 9 Pt No. 98J, 7 Pt No. 161J, 7 Pt No. 150A, 7 Pt No. 150C. New Holiday Borders and Ornaments 36 Pt 162, 36 Pt 163, 18/24 Pt 222, 24/36 Pt 222a, 24/36 Pt 225, 24/36 Pt 226, 18/24/30 Pt 332, 18/30 Pt 242, 18/30 Pt 243, 24/36 Pt 325, 24/36 Pt 326, 14/28/24 Pt 331, 18/30 Pt 333, 24 Pt 327, 12 Pt 328, 24 Pt 329, 24 Pt 330.

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Vol. 1, No. 8 (Dec. 1913)

A series of attacks on slugline composition.

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Vol. 1, No. 9 (Jan. 1914)

Includes: Monotype Lead Mold. Newspaper room layout (Haverhill, Mass. Herald). New Monotype Faces: 6/8/10/12 Pt 134E, 6/8/9/10/12 Pt 98K. N.B. No cover is present for this number in the NYPL bound volume.

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Vol. 1, No. 10 (Feb. 1914)

Includes: Illustration of female keyboard operators. Improved Universal Joint Copy Holder (no illus.) Monotype cellular matrices; unsuitability of electrolytic matrices at composition sizes. Marsh Type Breaker. New Monotype Faces: 5/6/7/8 Pt No. 186J, 6/8/10/12 Pt No. 164K, 9/10/11/12 Pt No. 186J. N.B. No cover is present for this number in the NYPL bound volume.

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Vol. 1, No. 11 (Mar. 1914)

Includes: Notice of founding of Carnegie Institute's Department of Printing. Obituary for Theodore Low DeVinne. Specimens of display ("Sorts Matrices") sizes of No. 175 (14/18/24/30/36 Pt). N.B. No cover is present for this number in the NYPL bound volume.

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Vol. 2, No. 1 (Apr. 1914)

Includes: A series of attacks on slugline composition. Floor plan of newspaper ("Le Soleil," Quebec).

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Vol. 2, No. 2 (May 1914)

Includes: Introduction of the Combination Lining Gauge and Eye Glass (p. 20). Increasingly nasty exchange with Mergenthaler Linotype. New display faces ("Sorts Matrices"): No. 1501 in 14/18/24/30/36 Pt. N.B. No cover is present for this number in the NYPL bound volume.

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Vol. 2, No. 3 (June 1914)

Includes: Globe Galley Lock [combination end and side galley lock]. Mac's Yielding Type Guard. William Green's Combination Page Tie and Foundry Guard. Scheme for using tags to indicate sorts needing to be cast (p. 39). New Monotype Faces: 6/8/10/12 Pt No. 275K, 6/8/10/12 Pt No. 102J, 5 Pt No. 76J, 5 1/2 Pt No. 149J.

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Vol. 2, No. 4 (July-August 1914)

Includes: Monotype Rule Form Work [forms illegible in this scan].

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Vol. 2, No. 5 (Sept.-Oct. 1914)

"United Typothetae & Franklin Clubs Convention Number." Includes: Article on the New Standard Dictionary composed on Monotype equipment. Chicago Monotype Club.

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Vol. 2, No. 6 (Nov.-Dec. 1914)

Includes: Photograph of mixed female and male keyboard operators. Keyboards and casters (male operated) enamelled white. Barton's Interlocking Steel Furniture. Hamilton Pressed Steel Galley (jointless corner). (Narrow steel) Storage Cans and Cabinets for matrices (devised by Cecil C. Hockman, Boston Post). Showings of 6/8/10/12 Pt No. 188J.

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Vol. 2, No. 7 (Jan.-Feb. 1915)

Includes: Robert F. Salade, "The Importance of Simplicity in Typography." N.B. No cover is present for this number in the NYPL bound volume.

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Vol. 2, No. 8 (March-April 1915)

Includes: Advocacy for Monotype Repeater Unit on keyboards. Matrix for "Made in USA" emblem (shield). Floor Plan of Berlin [Canada] News Record. Ad in which "Monotype Unit System" refers not to the scheme of set widths but rather to modular Monotype equipment. Ad for Monotype tie-up slugs. Specimens of display face ("Sorts Matrices") 14/18/24/30/36 Pt No. 194.

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[Unknown pages] (1913-1915)

The binder of the NYPL copy of Volumes 1-2 of this journal removed all of the covers (except that of Vol. 2, No. 1 which served as a marker for the start of the new volume) and bound them at the back of the book. (One charitably assumes that those covers which are missing were missing before the binding.) The binder probably also removed all back covers (it's hard to tell in a digital version). It is likely that the two pages linked here were the back cover of one of the numbers, as they are bound after the covers in the book. An examination of the physical edition might, or might not, be able to suggest the number to which they belonged. As it is, all that can be said is that they are two pages, probably a back cover, from somewhere in Vols. 1-2. This practice of mutilating a book in binding it was curiously common.

Vol. 3, No. 1 (May-June 1915)

Includes: Article on Monotype Series No. 78, used with No. 126 for initials. How to Make Set Ems Charts. Attacks on ATF. New Monotype Faces: 6/7/8/10/12 Pt No. 164B. 6/8/10/12/14 Pt No. 204J. 36 Pt No. 126 (Decorated Initials).

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[Unknown pages] (1915-1916)

The binders of the NYPL copy removed all covers (except for Nos. 1 of each volume, which served as markers) and bound them at the end of the texts. They seem to have discarded back covers entirely, with this one possible exception. This sheet was bound after the texts, but before the first of the covers. It is apparent from the show-through of the border of the "By-Products" page that it is the recto of which the page showing the back of the Monotype plant is the verso. It is not possible to determine from the digitization to which issue this presumed back cover belonged. I'm placing it here because, thematically, it fits well with the front cover of Vol. 3, No. 1.

Vol. 3, No. 2 (July-Aug. 1915)

Includes: Floor plan of Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co. Monotype exhibit at Panama-Pacific International Exhibition, by the Director of the Division of Exploitation for the Exhibition. "Mounting Cuts on Monotype Quads." Everett R. Currier "On Type Designing" and Monotype Series No. 38 by Goudy. Monotype Type Storage Boxes illustrated, with Diagram[s) of the Arrangement of Boxes in Cabinet[s]. Announcement of three new "units" for the keyboard: The Automatic Repeater Unit, The Automatic Scale Unit, The Electric Light Unit.

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Vol. 3, No. 3 (Sept.-Oct. 1915)

Includes: Floor plan of William F. Fell Co., Printers. Announcement that The American Printer [formerly The American Bookmaker] has absorbed Printing Trade News and The Master Printer (Philadelphia). Matrix storage cabinet in a safe. Monotype composition-cast type successfully used in a print run of 258,000 copies.

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Vol. 3, No. 4 (Nov.-Dec. 1915)

Includes: Monotype composition-cast type used on print run of 100,000.

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Vol. 3, No. 5 (Jan.-Feb. 1916)

Includes: Note on Monotype Series No. 117, in which this issue is composed. "The Monotype [Cellular] Matrix." "The Monotype Mold." Ad for Monotype Automatic Cutter (for rules, leads and slugs). Monotype composition and display type run at 1800 impressions/hour for 46,000 impressions.

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Vol. 3, No. 6 (March-April 1916)

Includes: Identification Character Matrices (matrices of 0.005 depth of drive, presumably giving 0.913 type height) used to set non-printing identification material in classified ads). Wilson's Cylindrical Calculator for tabular work. Shop-made galley numbers (improvising the casting of slugs around hand-filed Monotype type!)

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Vol. 4, No. 1 (May-June 1916)

Includes: Announcement that display matrix production is reaching 25,000 matrices per week. Short article on Monotype Series No. 172. Monotype print run of 85,000. Ad for Monotype Metal Cleaner.

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Vol. 4, No. 2 (July-Aug. 1916)

Includes: Attack on Mergenthaler Specimen Book of Type Styles asserting that pages of magazines reprinted in it are in fact Monotype. Attack on ATF (US GPO spending on foundry type down from $77,816.48 to $17.80).

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Vol. 4, No. 3 (Sept.-Oct. 1916)

Includes: Ads for Monotype Metal Cleaner and Electric Light Unit.

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Vol. 4, No. 4 (Nov.-Dec. 1916)

Includes: Press runs of over 100,000 impressions. Vacuum Keyboard Cleaner. Sorts Matrix Holder.

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Vol. 4, No. 5 (Jan.-Feb. 1917)

Includes: Claim to have originated term "copyfitting." Tie-up Slugs. Monotype for offset printing. 3-D ghost rendering of Quebec Telegraph building.

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Vol. 4, No. 6 (March-April 1917)

Includes: Lithographing from type. Infringement Notice, lead and rule casting (probably directed at the Elrod, though the method of casting cited (fusion casting) is not that of the Elrod (continuous casting)). Note: It is very likely, but not certain, that the end cover I've placed at the end of this volume is in fact the correct end cover for the volume (given the mutilation of the original book by its binders).

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Vol. 5, No. 1 (May-June 1917)

Includes: Warning that third-part fibre matrices are (a) damaging to the machine and not to be used, and (b) an infringement on Monotype's patent for matrices to fit a composition caster die case.

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Vol. 5, No. 2 (July-Aug. 1917)

Includes: Print runs of 330,000. Matrix production (presumably cellular and display together) up to 130,000 per month.

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Vol. 5, No. 3 (Sept.-Oct. 1917)

Includes: A showing of the longest column rule ever cast for one page (arranged in a large tight spiral). Monotype Border Matrix Specimen: Nos. 33A/33B/33C, 110, 111, 116, 116, 153, 154, 155, 156, 159, 222/222A, 327, 328, 329, 330. Improved Matrix Box for Display Matrices (i.e., what became the standard Monotype display matrix box).

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Vol. 5, No. 4 (Nov.-Dec. 1917)

Includes: Advertisements for The Monotype Specimen Book of Type Faces and Specimens of Monotype Rule and Corner Piece Matrices. Cartoon of type lice. User arrangement of new matrix box by set size. Ad for new display matrix box.

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Vol. 5, No. 5 (Jan.-Feb. 1918)

Includes: Costs of Monotype standing forms vs. electrotypes.

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Vol. 5, No. 6 (Mar.-Apr. 1918)

Includes: Ad for Lead-&-Rule Mold Attachment Unit. Ads for several Monotype books, including Matrix Case Arrangements (p. 125). First article/photographs I've yet found of a female caster operator. Issue in layout of a newspaper.

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Vol. 6, No. 1 (May-June 1918)

Includes: Short article on issues of casting spaces for hand-setting corrections when multiple fonts of different set in use (p. 6). Method for calculating indentation for initials at keyboard (p. 19). One-line specimens for: 8/10/12 Pt No. 11K & 14/18/24/30/36 Pt No. 1111, 6/8/10/12/14/18/24/30/36 Pt No. 231, 10/12/14/18/24/30/36 Pt No. 358, 12/14/18/24/30/36 Pt No. 298.

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Vol. 6, No. 2 (Sept. 1918)

Note the skip in dates; there seems to have been no issue in July/Aug., and now the issues are dated by a single month only.

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Vol. 6, No. 3 (Dec. 1918)

Again, note skip in dates. Includes: Article on Marguerite Wells, caster operator. A Keyboard Spool Stand. First type shipped by airplane.

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Vol. 6, No. 4 (Feb. 1919)

Includes: Obituary with full-page portrait of John Sellers Bancroft. Floor plan, Bombay Government Press Monotype Room.

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Vol. 6, No. 5 (March 1919)

Includes: New Rule Faces: 4-31RL, 4-4411RL, 6-371RL, 6-348RL, 6-367RL, 6-410RL, 6-758RL, 6-884RL, 6-1371RL, 6-1418RL, 6-2425RL, 12-3525RL, 12-9347RL, 12-164RL, 12-657RL, 12-611RL, 12-9676RL.

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Vol. 7, No. 1 (July 1919)

Includes: "Type and Rule Selections from the New Monotype Specimen Sheets." 6/8/14/18/24/36 Pt Series No. 231 ("an adaptation of a popular old face"), and, "recently issued": 6/7/8 Pt No. 13A, 6/7/8 Pt No. 328J, 6 Pt No. 466J, 12/30 Pt No. 298J, 24 Pt No. 2751, 12 Pt No. 246, 18 Pt No. 193, 4 1/2 /5/6/8 Pt No. 323B, 7/9 Pt No. 323J, 24 Pt No. 323, 18 Pt No. 1111 24 Pt No. 286, 30 Pt No. 285, 36 Pt No. 288 and Rule: 3-18RL, 3-3428RL, 3-410RL, 3-51RL, 6-348RL, 6-620RL, 6-367RL, 6-2425RL. Extra-Short Column Support (X52F).

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Vol. 7, No. 2 (Aug. 1919)

Includes: Press run of 200,000 (p. 16).

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Vol. 7, No. 3 (Sept. 1919)

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Vol. 7, No. 4 (Oct. 1919)

Includes: "Some Recent Additions to the Monotype Family": 14/18/24/30/36 Pt No. 1651, 14/18/24/30/36 Pt No. 239, 30/36 Pt No. 276, "14/18/18/24/24" Pt No. 197 [but probably 14/18/24/30/36 Pt], 14/18/24/30/36 Pt No. 358, 24/30/36 Pt No. 139.

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Vol. 7, No. 5 (Nov. 1919)

Includes: Monotype plate gothics (article and specimens).

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Vol. 7, No. 6 (Christmas 1919)

Note: scan defective on p. 55.

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Vol. 7, No. 7 (Jan. 1920)

Includes. Photographs of Con. P. Curran Co., St. Louis (largest commercial Monotype plant). Good photograph of a turtle in use (p. 65). Decorative Borders (not necessarily newly introduced) shown in combination and with rule. "The Hidden Brain" ad showing Monotype punched tape. Set in Lanston Monotype Series No. 21, Binny Old Style.

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Vol. 7, No. 8 (Feb. 1920)

Includes. Quick Method of Filling Blanks (in forms, using slotted slugs). "Using the Low Quad as a Base for Electrotypes." Seven series of Plate Gothic Combinations, described and shown: 6 Pt Series No. 340J Nos. 4-1. 6 Pt Series No. 344J Nos. 4-1. 6 Pt Series No. 341J Nos. 4-1. 12 Pt Series No. 341J Nos. 4-1. 6 Pt Series No. 342J Nos. 4-1. 12 Pt Series No. 342J Nos. 4-1. 6 Pt Series No. 343J Nos. 4-1. 12 Pt Series No. 343J Nos. 4-1. 6 Pt Series No. 345J Nos. 4-1. 12 Pt Series No. 345J Nos. 4-1. 6 Pt Series No. 346J Nos. 4-1. 12 Pt Series No. 346J Nos. 4-1. Note: Ludlow numbered their combinations 1-4 in order of descending size, Lanston ordered them 1-4 in order of ascending size.

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Vol. 7, No. 9 (March 1920)

Set in Series No. 98 (Bookman).

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Vol. 8, No. 1 (April 1920)

Includes: Advantages of the Duplex Keyboard. Monotype Baseball Figures (and punches), 12 Pt No. 12F 132, 18 Pt No. 18F 132. [See also Vol. 1, No. 2 (May 1913): 23, 30] Set in Series No. 20. Printed in new page size, "hypotenuse oblong."

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Vol. 8, No. 2 (May 1920)

Includes: Specimens of Arrows. Set in Series No. 64 and 264.

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Vol. 8, No. 3 (June 1920)

Includes: Death (with portrait) of Joseph Hays, manager of the Typographic and Advertising Depts. Announcement of Series No. 61 in composition sizes, electro display matrices in preparation.

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Vol. 8, No. 4 (July 1920)

Includes: Article on George W. Mackenzie (became Mackenzie & Harris / M&H). Notes they began in trade composition in 1915, and installed his first Type-&-Rule Caster in 1918. Specimen of No. 337 Caslon (compsition: 337E/337G with long descenders (cast 7-on-8, 8-on-9, 9-on-10, 10-on-11, 11-on-12) and short descenders (12 pt), display 337/3371).

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Vol. 8, No. 5 (Aug. 1920)

Includes: Specimens of No. 346K Arrangement P-G [Plate Gothic] - Composition Matrices. ("Specimens of all the possible cap and small cap combinations that can be made with the four sizes in each matrix case.")

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Vol. 8, No. 6 (Sept. 1920)

Includes: Brief notice of the Pacific Typesetting and Type Foundry Co., San Francisco. Handling Metal Costs (cost accounting). William C. Magee appointed Typographic Manager of Lanston. Advance Showings of "some of the latest" Borders: 12 Pt. No. 493, 36 Pt. No. 548 / 24 Pt. No. 547 / 6 Pt. No. 546, 12 Pt. No. 496, 12 Pt. No. 491, 12 Pt. No. 492, 12 Pt. No. 542, 12 Pt. No. 543, 12 Pt. No. 481 / 12 Pt. No. 545 / 12 Pt. No. 478, 12 Pt. No. 544 / 12 Pt. No. 470, 12 Pt. No. 471.

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Vol. 8, No. 7 (Oct.-Nov. 1920)

Includes: Mr. Goudy Becomes Monotype Art Director. Letterspacing (Ellsworth Geist. "The Tricky Art of Spacing.") Monotype overall production figures given as "more than 9000." Note: smaller format, without illustrations; the tone of the publication changes dramatically with this number.

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Vol. 8, No. 8 (Dec. 1920 - Jan. 1921)

Includes: John T. Hoyle [Head of the Dept. of Graphic Arts, Carnegie Institute of Technology] "A Story of What Man has Wrought: Frederic W. Goudy and the Monotype." Complete showing of Lanston Monotype Series 337 Caslon from 7 to 36 pt. Frederic W. Goudy. "Notes on Type Desgins: Old & New."

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Vol. 8, No. 9 (Feb.-March 1921)

Includes: Showing of Series No. 36, 6 to 36 pt. An editor (Edward D. Berry) identified for the first time.

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Vol. 8, No. 10 MISSING

This issue does not appear in the NYPL copy of this volume.

Vol. 8, No. 11 (Aug. 1921)

Edward D. Berry, ed. Includes: Announcemnt of Lanston victory in their lawsuit against Ludlow Typograph over the Elrod. They neglect to note that the suit was over the cutoff mechanism only; the Monotype and the Elrod have always employed different methods for casting lead and rule (fusion vs. continuously pulled). Partial showing of the Monotype Bodoni family: Series No. 175 Rom[an and It]alic, No. 275 Bold and Italic, No. 375 Roman with long descenders and Italic. Crochet picture reproduced by Monotype. Newst Monotype Border and Ornaments (incl. brackets): 25 pt 519, 24 pt 477, 24 pt 474, 24 pt 475, 18 pt 195, 18 pt 494, 24 pt 490, 24 pt 518, 24 pt 519, 24 pt 476, 18 pt 479, 6 pt 680N / 18 pt 479, 24 pt 490, 36 pt 486, 36 pt 482, 36 pt 483, 36 pt 500, 24 pt 484, 18 pt 485, 36 pt 501, 36 pt 516, 24 pt 497, 18 pt 498, 14/18/24 pt 567 / 568, 36 pt 564, 14/18/24 pt 562, 24 pt 563, 36 pt 567/568, 36 pt 562, 24 pt 561, 24 pt 564, 24 pt 563/566, 14/18 pt 564, 14 pt 561, 36 pt 563, 14 pt 565/566, 14 pt 563, 14/18 pt 563. Note: incompletely scanned.

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Vol. 8, No. 12 (Sept. 1921)

F. L. Rutledge, Ed. Includes: Frederic W. Goudy. "The First Types" ('Paraphrased extracts from Mr. Goudy's forthcoming book, "Typologia."') Dr. Frank Crane. "The Maker of Alphabets." (brief article on Goudy). Set in Series No. 172 (Suburban French). Due to the mutilation of this volume by its binder, it is only a guess that the back cover of this volume is in fact the one for this volume; all other back covers, however, were removed by the binder.

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Vol. 9, No. 6 (Jan.-Feb. 1923) - Bruce Rogers & Garamont

F.L.Rutledge, Ed. Includes "Private Presses in England" (a chapter from Holbrook Jackson's The Eighteen Nineties ("With an Introduction & Additiosn by another hand")) and W. M. Ivins, Jr. "A Note on Claude Garamond."

This issue was designed by Bruce Rogers and set in a trial font of Goudy's Garamont (Lanston Monotype series no. 248).

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Whole No. 70 (May 1924) - Kennerley

This issue specifies no volume or intra-volume issue number. It is simply listed as "May 1924 Number 70". Edited by F. L. Rutledge. Designed by George F. Trenholm and Ellworth Geist. It is devoted to Kennerley.

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Contents:

Vol. 21, No. 72 (Aug., 1927) - Bruce Rogers

This issue features six advertisements designed and supervised by Bruce Rogers which appeared in 1926-1927. It is notable because it identifies the exact Lanston Monotype ornaments used by Rogers.

This digitization reproduces all of the printed material from the original journal, but fails to represent the original margins. It does not therefore represent the layout of the page as Rogers intended. To this digitization of this issue I have added scans of one of the ads as printed by Lanston Monotype as an individual offprint (with slightly different text in it identifying Rogers).

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