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The Biography of Ottmar Mergenthaler Hardcover - 1989
by Carl Schlesinger (Editor)
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- Title The Biography of Ottmar Mergenthaler
- Author Carl Schlesinger (Editor)
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- Pages 125
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- Language ENG
- Publisher Oak Knoll Press, New Castle, DE
- Date June 1989
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780938768128 / 0938768123
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 88092646
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The Biography of Ottmar Mergenthaler Inventor of the Linotype. A new edition, with added historical notes, based on recent findings.
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New Castle, Oak Knoll 1989. Original publisher's green plastic-covered boards, gilt lettering spine & frontcover, pictorial dustjacket, revised & enlarged edition [1898], large 8vo: frontispiece, xviij, 126pp., very richly illustrated, large folding facsimile in rear pocket, list illustrations.Very fine copy - as new. Volume Oak Knoll Series on the History of the Book.
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Biography of Ottmar Mergenthaler: Inventor of the Linotype.
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New Castle:: Oak Knoll Books,. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1992. Hardcover. 0938768123 . Introduction by Elizabeth Harris. Black and white illustrations. Facsimile reprint of the first newspaper page using Linotype lines in rear pocket. A later printing of this edition. Near fine in a near fine (sun faded along the spine and spine edge of the front panel) dust jacket. .
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Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 1989 2021-07-09. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Bright, sharp copy, no ownership markings, touch of dust-staining to top edge, foldout intact in rear slip. Sharp copy, not clipped.
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New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Books, 1989. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 4to. Frontis., xviii, 125 pp., illus. Researched and edited by Carl Schlesinger, Foreword by Dr. Wolfgang Kummer and with an Introduction by Elizabeth Harris. Oak Knoll Series on the History of the Book. Pocket at rear contains a folded sheet of the New-York Tribune being the first Linotype printing. A fine copy in mildly edgeworn dustjacket.
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THE BIOGRAPHY OF OTTMAR MERGENTHALER, INVENTOR OF THE LINOTYPE
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US: Oak Knoll Pr, 1992. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good. This is a signed special printing of 250 copies of which this is number 40; housed in publisher's original slipcase and with the keepsake page attached and intact. Forest green leather over boards with gilt particulars to spine and gilt particulars in compartment to front board. Pages are clean and unmarked; white bookmarker ribbon attached and intact. Text block has a few small spots of soiling. Boards are clean, bright and unmarked; corners and ends of spine bumped. Binding is tight and square. Dust jacket has light rubbing to front cover and corners. Blue paper-covered slipcase shows light to moderate soiling particuarly to rear board; rubbing to front board.
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New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Books. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1989. Hardcover. 0938768123 . A handsome edition in Fine condition housed in a dust-jacket that is Nearly Fine with some edge rubbing ; The biography of Ottmar Mergenthaler, an inventor of the Linotype machine, tells the story of one man's quest to create a typeface that was both beautiful and easy to use. Mergenthaler was a visionary who saw the potential for typesetting to change the way people communicated. His Linotype machine made it possible for journalists, publishers, and others to produce quick and affordable texts.; 8vo; 125 pages; Price? ? ? .
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