Monotype Newsletter 87- June 1970-VG+

Monotype's role in design history is not merely due to their supply of printing equipment but due to their commissioning of many of the most important typefaces of the twentieth century.

Typography and Graphics

A single issue of this newsletter of 1970, from the Monotype Corporation providing specimen typefaces and news of contemporary developments. Type face  Spectrum

Title: Monotype Newsletter 87

Publisher: The Monotype Corporation Ltd., London

Publication Date: June 1970

Binding: Magazine

Condition: Very Good

Edition: First Edition.

Book Type: Magazine/Periodical

All copies are in very good condition for their age; some slightest foxing, but otherwise very clean and bright. 

Tolbert Lanston (1844–1913) from Washington DC invented the Monotype system of casting and composing metal type. The keyboard and caster were first patented in the USA in 1887 and led to the formation of the Lanston Monotype Corporation Limited in the UK in 1897. London headquarters were set up in 1898 and a factory at Salfords near Redhill in Surrey was established in 1899.

Initially, the factory was in charge of manufacturing matrices, and received machines from America, but after 1924 they also started making and assembling their own machines. The end products were manufactured entirely in a British-owned factory for use in Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia.

The company was renamed The Monotype Corporation Limited to distinguish it from the American company in 1931.

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