Etaoin & Shrdlu / Ray Ballash

Identifier:REF.PM.1486

Dimensions:19 p : ill. ; 21 cm.

Library of Congress Subject Headings:Linotype, Printmaking, creating with the arts

Description:Informational booklet about the Linotype machine. Contents: Typesetting Milestones -- The Matrices -- The Linotype -- Mergenthaler's Early Machines -- The Linotype by Models -- The Linotype Junior -- The Linotype Bulletin -- Other Methods of Type Casting -- The Competitors -- A Glance Backward -- New Methods. "For those who wondered about this booklet's title... Etaoin & Shrdlu are the first two rows of keys on the Linotype keyboard. Much of the information contained herein is circa 1940, or in some instances from The History of Composing Machines by John S. Thompson, dated 1904. Typeset at home on a Model 14 Linotype once belonging to the San Pedro News Pilot newspaper...One hundred copies printed on a Vandercook repro press for the Fourth National Conference of the American Typefounding Fellowship at the Smithsonian Institution, June 21-24, 1984." - from Foreword