Filled with mock examples of typesetting, from title pages and chapter openings to leaflets and advertisements, the Linotype Manual gives a good sense of how the printed world looked in the early 20th century. While most specimens of this era mainly show their fonts through paragraphs of sample text and pages of stacked-and-justified showings, the focus of this book is type in use. As Joshua Lurie-Terrell wrote here years ago, the Manual is not your standard type catalog. ![]() One of the items in Miliano’s donation was the 1923 Manual of Linotype Typography, a unique type specimen that is as much about teaching typographic fundamentals as it is showing typefaces. So he gave 13 books to the Internet Archive, an organization that scans a thousand books a day and puts them online for the world to read. ![]() The best thing that could happen is that you take that book, and you keep it – and me – in your heart. It’s not a loan: it’s a gift depending on the book, perhaps the gift of a passion, or of knowledge, or of understanding. So, when I give you a book, I don’t want it back. Written by Stephen Coles on December 19, 2012Īustin-based designer Vitorio Miliano prefers to give books rather than lend them:įor me, the important parts of a book are inside me, after I’ve read it and taken it in. ![]() “The Manual of Linotype Typography” Is Now Online
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