The Bentons
Subtitle: how an American father and son changed the printing industry
By: Patricia A. Cost
Publisher: RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Rochester, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9781933360423
Subjects: Type and type-founding; American Type Founders Company; Type designers; Biography; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-372) and index.
Table of contents: title: Metal type; title: Three generations of Bentons; title: The North-Western Type Foundry; title: Challenges and solutions; title: The development of Benton's punch-cutting machine, and how it made the linotype a success; title: The formation of the American Type Founders Company; title: Linn Boyd Benton and the century type; title: An overview of Linn Boyd Benton's patented inventions; title: Morris Benton at ATF; title: How type was made at ATF; title: The Benton family's early years in Plainfield, New Jersey; title: Prosperity and hard times; title: The typographic climate in the early twentieth century; title: Morris Benton's type designs; title: The later Plainfield years; title: The Benton legacy.