Nineteenth-Century American Designers & Engravers of Type
Nothing’s worse than researching an arcane topic, only to scan down over forums and long posts to unanswered questions. That’s what it must have been like in 1896 to read The Inland Printer’s column on designers and engravers of type because, for technical limitations, none of the work of these designers could be shown.
This column was created by William E. Loy, a San Franciscan printing equipment salesman and scholar. For three years Loy compiled through correspondence the biographies, photographs of the artists, and lists of the type they designed or cut.
As we’d imagine Loy would have wanted it, Nineteenth-Century American Designers & Engravers of Type compiles all of both the bios and type (over 800 faces) into one book. It’s good for an historical log and a fascinating view of type design trends of the time.
Nineteenth-Century American Designers & Engravers of Type
By Loy E. William
Edited by Alastair M. Johnston & Stephen O. Saxe
Published in New Castle, Delaware by Oak Knoll Press
First Edition 2009
Hardcover with Dust Jacket
9 × 12 inches
164 Pages
Typeset in Electra, Designed by William Addison Dwiggins and issued by Linotype in 1935
ISBN 978–1–58456–261–0
$59.95
