Posts Tagged ‘Inland Printer’

A Personal Reminiscence of J.L. Frazier

posted on 2 January 2011, under The Composing Room

The writer was one of the many men who were inspired to a love of good typography by the late editor of The Inland Printer. Here are some personal memories of the virtuoso of typographic criticism whose “Specimen Review” pages were the Bible for compositors for almost half a century. In October of 1965, I [...]

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February 25

posted on 25 February 2010, under A Printer’s Almanac

In a letter to the editor of the Press News on this date in 1893, William Morris proprietor of the Kelmscott Press, substantiated what he had said to a representative of the London Daily Chronicle when pressed for his views upon printing and the current state of the art in England and across the Atlantic [...]

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