These are digitizations of the original articles of William E. Loy's series "Designers and Engravers of Type" which appeared in The Inland Printer from 1898 to 1900. At present, many of these digitizations are from the rather low-resolution copies available via Google Books.
These versions, while interesting, are by no means a substitute for the excellent modern edition edited by Alastair M. Johnston and Stephen O. Saxe, Nineteenth-Century American Designers and Engravers of Type (New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Books, 2009) . If you're interested enough in the making of type to be reading Loy, then you really need the Johnston/Saxe edition.
No. 1 [Introduction]
From The Inland Printer. Vol. 20, No. 5 (1898-02), p. 621. Digitized by Google from the University of California copy. This contains an important statement on the prevelance of patrix engraving for matrix electroforming in the 19th century.
(There is one discordant note in Loy's account of the widespread use of electroformed matrices. He says that matrices driven (from punches) are "almost a necessity" with "the steam perfecting casting machine." I believe that he is in error in this instance, and was simply misinformed. As evidence I will note two things: First, electroformed matrices used on casting machines formed the basis of the independent typefounding industry in America in the 20th century (and still do in the 21st). Second, speaking from experience in casting electroformed matrices on the Thompson Type Caster, they work quite well. Electroformed matrices do fail in such machines, but they fail infrequently and the failure is usually the result either of a faulty matrix or poor operating procedures.)
No. 2, James West
From The Inland Printer. Vol. 20, No. 6 (1898-03), p. 774.
Unfortunately, pp. 773-774 are missing from the Univ. of California copy, and this is at present the only copy of this volume which has been digitized.
No. 3, August E. Woerner
From The Inland Printer. Vol. 21, No. 1 (1898-04), pp. 49-50. Digitized by Google from the University of California copy.
No. 4, Herman Ihlenburg
From The Inland Printer. Vol. 21, No. 2 (1898-05), pp. 182-183. Digitized by Google from the University of California copy.
No. 5, Alexander Phemister
From The Inland Printer. Vol. 21, No. 3 (1898-06), p. 359. Digitized by Google from the University of California copy.
No. 6, John F. Cumming
From The Inland Printer. Vol. 21, No. 4 (1898-07), p. 470. Digitized by Google from the University of California copy.
No. 7, Andrew Gilbert
From The Inland Printer. Vol. 21, No. 5 (1898-08), p. 581. Digitized by Google from the University of California copy.
No. 8, Alexander Kay
From The Inland Printer. Vol. 21, No. 6 (1898-09), p. 723. Digitized by Google from the University of California copy.
No. 9, William W. Jackson
From The Inland Printer. Vol. 22, No. 1 (1898-10), p. 49. Digitized by Google from the Harvard University copy. PNG version
No. 10, Samuel Sawyer Kilburn
From The Inland Printer. Vol. 22, No. 3 (1898-11), p. 185 Digitized by Google from the Harvard University copy. PNG version
No. 11, Gustav F. Schroeder
From The Inland Printer. Vol. 22, No. 3 (1898-12), p. 338. Digitized by Google from the Harvard University copy. PNG version
See Notebook on Gustav F. Schroeder.
No. 12, Julius Herriet, Sr.
From The Inland Printer. Vol. 22, No. 4 (1899-01), p. 465. Digitized by Google from the Harvard University copy. PNG version
No. 13, William H. Page
From The Inland Printer. Vol. 22, No. 5 (1899-02), p. 579. Digitized by Google from the Harvard University copy. Page was of course a maker of wood, not metal, type. PNG version
No. 14, David Bruce
From The Inland Printer. Vol. 22, No. 6 (1899-03), p. 701. Digitized by Google from the Harvard University copy.
No. 15, Edwin C. Ruthven
From The Inland Printer. Vol. 23, No. 1 (1899-04), p. 64. Digitized by Google from the Harvard University copy.
No. 16, Harrison T. Lounsbury
From The Inland Printer. Vol. 23, No. 2 (1899-05), p. 216. Digitized by Google from the Harvard University copy.
No. 17, William F. Capitain
From The Inland Printer. Vol. 23, No. 3 (1899-06), p. 336. Saxe and Loy note that the correct spelling of the subject's name is "Capitain" (and they so correct it in their edition); Loy has "Capitaine." Digitized by Google from the Harvard University copy.
No. 18, Julius Herriet, Jr.
From The Inland Printer. Vol. 23, No. 4 (1899-07), p. 460. Digitized by Google from the Harvard University copy.
No. 19, Nicholas J. Werner
From The Inland Printer. Vol. 23, No. 5 (1899-08), p. 595. Digitized by Google from the Harvard University copy.
No. 20, John Graham
From The Inland Printer. Vol. 23, No. 6 (1899-09), p. 735. Digitized by Google from the Harvard University copy.
No. 21, John E. Hanrahan
From The Inland Printer. Vol. 24, No. 1 (1899-10), p. 95. Digitized by Google from the University of Minnesota copy but presented here in the version of The Hathi Trust. Hathi id (for Vol. 24): http://hdl.handle.org/2027/umn.319510018987495. PNG version of this page.
The "related business ... perfectly congenial to his tastes" was the establishment of the Compositype company. Given Hanrahan's central role in that and the important (but ill-documented) role that the Compositype's matrix library played in the development of both the Nuernberger-Rettig and the Thompson typecasters, his influence on Twentieth-Century type is larger than might be supposed.
No. 22, Henry Brehmer
From The Inland Printer. Vol. 24, No. 2 (1899-11), p. 243. Digitized by Google from the University of Minnesota copy but presented here in the version of The Hathi Trust. Hathi id (for Vol. 24): http://hdl.handle.org/2027/umn.319510018987495. PNG version of this page.
No. 23, Charles Henry Beeler
From The Inland Printer. Vol. 24, No. 3 (1899-12), p. 417. Digitized by Google from the University of Minnesota copy but presented here in the version of The Hathi Trust. Hathi id (for Vol. 24): http://hdl.handle.org/2027/umn.319510018987495. PNG version of this page
No. 24, Charles E. Heyer
From The Inland Printer. Vol. 24, No. 4 (1900-01), p. 573. Digitized by Google from the University of Minnesota copy but presented here in the version of The Hathi Trust. Hathi id (for Vol. 24): http://hdl.handle.org/2027/umn.319510018987495. PNG version of this page.
No. 25, Early American Representatives of the Letter-Cutter's Art
From The Inland Printer. Vol. 24, No. 5 (1900-02), pp. 709-710. Digitized by Google from the University of Minnesota copy but presented here in the version of The Hathi Trust. Hathi id (for Vol. 24): http://hdl.handle.org/2027/umn.319510018987495. PNG version of p. 709. PNG version of p. 710.
Edwin Starr, Henry Starr, William F. Hill, David Bruce, Jr., and George B. Lothian.
No. 26, John M. Wehrle
From The Inland Printer. Vol. 24, No. 6 (1900-03), p. 852. Digitized by Google from the University of Minnesota copy but presented here in the version of The Hathi Trust. Hathi id (for Vol. 24): http://hdl.handle.org/2027/umn.319510018987495. PNG version of this page.
No. 27, Henry Schuenemann
From The Inland Printer. Vol. 25, No. 1 (1900-04), p. 43. Digitized by Google from the University of Michigan copy, but presented here in the version of The Hathi Trust. Hathi id (for Vol. 25): http://hdl.handle.org/2027/mdp.39015086781468. PNG version of this page.
Note: No installment appeared in Vol. 25, No. 2 (1900-05).
No. 28, Berne Nadall
From The Inland Printer. Vol. 25, No. 3 (1900-06), p. 382. Digitized by Google from the University of Michigan copy, but presented here in the version of The Hathi Trust. Hathi id (for Vol. 25): http://hdl.handle.org/2027/mdp.39015086781468. PNG version of this page.
Note: For the versions obtained directly from Google Books, in order to obtain the best possible renderings, at first I disassembled the PDFs into their constituent JPEG and JPEG-2000 images and reassemble them by hand. In some cases where unrelated images appeared on the page, I did not trouble to include that image. Later I discovered the "pdftk" toolkit which allowed me to "burst" the PDFs into individual page images without these issues. The Hathi Trust versions are available as slightly better resolution page images.
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