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Preface

foundry which has introduced a new face of type. Many of them are now branches of the American Type Founders Company. To accredit each face of type toa great company which has branches in many widely separated cities would not properly specify the maker or the place of manufacture.

Acknowledgments for valuable information in the preparation of this matter are due, and are here gratefully made, to the late David Bruce, Jr., the late James Lindsay, and their successor Mr. V. B. Munson, of the New York Type Foundry; to Mr. J. W. Phinney of Boston, Mr. L. S. Benton of New York, and Mr. Henry Barth of Cincinnati, of the American Type Founders Company; to Mr. Charles T. Jacobi of the Chiswick Press, and Mr. T. W. Smith of H. W. Caslon & Company, London; to Messrs. Theodor Goebel of Stuttgart, Claude Motteroz of Paris, V. Deslandes of the Imprensa Nacional of Lisbon, and William E. Loy of San Francisco.