Linotype Faces at Huxley House (Machine Matrix Resources)

Huxley House

Published by Huxley House, Ltd., New York, 1965

About this Item

New York: Huxley House, Ltd., 1965. [114] pp. 28 x 19 cm. Semi-gloss stiff card covers printed in black and green in a plastic comb binding. Very light rubbing to covers. Bookplate of previous owner on inside of front cover. Some faint foxing on insides of covers and adjacent pages. Interior otherwise clean and unmarked. Binding sound with no cracking or lost teeth to binding. Founded in 1928 by Walter Huxley and Franz C. Hess, Huxley House was an advertising typography firm located in New York City. Born in New York, Huxley moved to San Francisco and became a member of the San Francisco Bay Cities Club of Printing House Craftsmen alongside John Henry Nash, Edwin Grabhorn, and Haywood Hunt. He then studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, and then moved back to New York where he worked at the American Type Founders Company. In 1935 Huxley designed the Huxley Vertical typeface in 1935, and became the chairman of the New York group of the Advertising Typographers Association of America. This handbook contains Huxley House's complete machine matrix resources, and as the firm acquired new faces, new specimen pages would be sent to the book's owner. A plastic tool is included at the rear of the book to assist in inserting the new pages. Quite scarce, WorldCat locates only one copy in holdings. . Limited, Numbered. Spiral Bound. Very Good. Illus. by . Seller Inventory # 627394

Bibliographic Details

Title: Linotype Faces at Huxley House (Machine ...

Publisher: Huxley House, Ltd., New York

Publication Date: 1965

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Edition: Limited, Numbered.