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Morgan Press wood type.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Tehon Collection Art and Design Z250 .M849
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Morgan Press.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Type and type-founding--Specimens.
- Type and type-founding.
- Printing--Specimens.
- Printing.
- Genre:
- Specimens.
- Penn Provenance:
- Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)
- Tehon, Susan (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 111 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations ; 28 cm
- Other Title:
- Wood type
- Wood
- Place of Publication:
- Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y. : Morgan Press, [1964?]
- Notes:
- "The awakening interest in early American wood-types has made this catalog possible. Up until the last few years wood-type was either burned or discarded to make way for new equipment ..."--T.p.
- "The wood type specimens shown on the following pages represent a complete showing of American wood-type styles from 1826 to the present ..." T.p. verso.
- Text printed in sections of different color Lindenmeyr Schlosser paper.
- Spiral bound.
- "Design. Cover: John Alcorn."--Colophon.
- Local Notes:
- Tehon Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.
- Tehon Collection disbound from broken spiral.
- Tehon Collection copy has "Atha Tehon" written in ms. on front cover.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Morgan Press. Morgan Press wood type.
- OCLC:
- 5699330
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