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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 1
[trade dispatches]
Ivory and amber are now so imitated in celluloid as to defy detection, and for manufacturing purposes the celluloid is preferred.
Messrs Caslon & Co. send us a sample of their improved leads, made by machinery, which are said to be very superior in accuracy and finish. The fine parallel lines on the metal are evidence of the operation of a planing or shaving tool.
The new catalogue of Messrs Golding & Co., briefly acknowledged in last month's Typo, contains every imaginable requisite for a printing office. Every manufactory and typefoundry in the United States appears to be represented. From the same firm we have copies of their periodical, the Printers' Review.
The large quarto specimen book of the Central Typefoundry (St. Louis) is one to delight the go-ahead printer, It not only exhibits the every-day styles of plain and job letter, and the special designs of the firm, but shows in detail all the out of-the-way signs, accents, and peculiars, which every printer requires at some time or other, and which some of the founders seem never to have heard of. We note two neat founts of weather-signal type. — From this house we have also a parcel of back numbers of their periodical, the Printers' Register, containing valuable and interesting matter.
An advertisement from Messrs John Haddon & Co. appears in this issue. We have had dealings with this house for five or six years past, and find it to our advantage to do nearly all our English business through them. Messrs Haddon do an extensive Indian and colonial export business; and being also practical printers and publishers on a large scale, are intimately acquainted with the markets, and are often in a position to obtain more favorable terms than the printer who deals direct with the manufacturer. Their acquaintance with the colonial markets enables them also to fill open orders in any line in a satisfactory manner.