The Ludlow Typograph Firm, established in 1906, produced specimen books titled “Some Ludlow Typefaces” in editions A, B, C, and D to showcase their proprietary fonts and ornaments.
These books, significantly challenge ‘D’ from circa 1958, featured designs by principal typographer R. Hunter Middleton, recognized for fonts like Coronet and Stencil, in addition to contributions from designers corresponding to Robert Wiebking and Hermann Zapf. The Ludlow Typograph was a scorching steel typesetting system used primarily for large-type supplies like newspaper headlines and posters. Regardless of the decline of letterpress printing within the Nineteen Sixties, Ludlow’s matrices remained in use into the mid-Eighties, partly attributable to their utility in rubber stamp manufacturing. At its peak within the early Eighties, the corporate reported that 16,000 Ludlow machines have been operational worldwide.
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