The Manual of Linotype Typography: Prepared to aid Users and Producers of Printing in securing Greater Unity and Real Beauty in the Printed Page, Typographical Plan and Critical Comment by William Dana Orcutt in Cooperation with Edward E. Bartlett, Mergenthaler Linotype Company, Brooklyn, 1923, 256pp, cloth, 9.5 x 12.5", 4to

Fair condition.  Wear and damp-staining to front and rear boards.  Title in black ink on front board and spine.  Minor bumping to tips.  Patterned endpapers.  Frontispiece opposite title page.  Title page in red and black ink: red is still crisp.  Toning, age-staining, and tea-staining throughout textblock.  Text and embellishments in black, red, blue, and green ink.  No known marginalia.  Please see photos.

Invented by German watchmaker Ottmar Mergenthaler in 1884, the Linotype was machine for use in printing, sold by the Mergenthaler Linotype Company of New York.  It was a hot metal typesetting system that cast blocks of metal type for individual uses.  The new machine cut down on labor and saved space, revolutionizing typesetting, particularly in newspaper publishing.  A single operator could take the place of six people setting type by hand.  It was also much faster than other machines and so enabled newspapers and periodicals to increase production.