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With line & flower : a printer's specimen book showing matrix slides used in casting metal rules and decorative border material : the slides were collected and these examples of their use and the explanatory comment were

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Description: "This volume is the fourth in a series of printer's specimen books showing types and decorative units gathered and used in my printing office over the past more than fifty years. It features, almost exclusively, Linotype border slides, used in casting five-inch long strips of letterpress printing material"--Pages 16-17
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: [1988]
Call number: 489145
Creator: Hoffman, Richard J(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Friends of the Huntington Library, July 1989. Autograph signature of the author/printer below colophon.

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