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The CR typebook.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Tehon Collection Art and Design Z250 .C73
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Composing Room, Inc.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Composing Room, Inc--Catalogs.
- Composing Room, Inc.
- Printing--Specimens.
- Printing.
- Type and type-founding.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Type and type-founding--New York (State)--New York.
- Genre:
- Specimens.
- Catalogs.
- Penn Provenance:
- Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)
- Tehon, Susan (donor)
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 444 pages : illustrations ; 33 cm
- Other Title:
- CR The Composing Room
- Place of Publication:
- New York City : The Composing Room, Inc., [1965]
- Contents:
- Machine Section: 18 point typefaces; 14-6 point typefaces; Typographic refinements; Run-in combinations; Swash initials; Language accents; Borders & ornaments; Copyfitting charts
- Handset Section: Foundry type; Ludlow; Monotype; All purpose linotype (APL) (To 144 point); Swash initials (Hand).
- Notes:
- "Design: Arnold Shaw. Production Supervision: Sidney Minson."
- "The Comprehensive Index beginning at page vi is designed as a One-Line Specimen Section, showing nearly 700 faces in over 5,000 sizes. As we continue adding faces, regular supplements to this book will be issued."--Page ii.
- Includes index.
- Loose leaves contained in 4-ring black binder.
- Local Notes:
- Tehon Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.
- Tehon Collection copy has label: Copy no. 641 presented to Tracy Penton.
- Tehon Collection copy: p. 443-444 wanting.
- OCLC:
- 8714478
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