Author: MENGEL, WILLI; LIN YUTANG (INTRO)
Title: Otto Mergenthaler and the Printing Revolution
Description: Brooklyn, NY: Mergenthaler Linotype Press, 1954. 1st Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Quarter bound in publishers beige cloth over faux-vellum glossy paper, gilt lettering on spine, gilt medallion of a linotype machine on cover. Illustrated with a color frontispiece portrait of Ottmar Mergerthaler and numerous line-drawings in green. This book "commerorates the One Hundredth anniversary of the birth of Ottmar Mergenthaler, whose contribution to the Graphic Arts industry remains one of the great inventions of all time." Gift card from Martin M. Reed, President of the Mergenthaler Linotype Company, laid in. The volume is in fine condition; unmarked, tight, square, and clean. FINE. Frontispiece portrait and drawings. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 63 pp. Fine with No dust jacket as issued .

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