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Douglas Crawford McMurtrie
Author (1888-1944) of over 400 books on printing and typography. His life story is told by Scott Bruntjen and Melissa L. Young in Douglas C. McMurtrie, bibliographer and historian of printing (Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1979). A partial list of his books, limited to the history of typography: - In 1923 (and reprinted in 1935, Chicago), Douglas C. McMurtrie published A mysterious type specimen; a note on the typeface showing of the typefounder Marquet, issued at Lyons, France, apparently during the last half of the eighteenth century: page 3, page 4 (where he notices that Marquet's type is difficult to categorize, and is different from anything he had seen in the types of Lammesle, Mozet. Gillé, or Fournier le jeune), a scan of the type, some vignettes.
- The invention of printing: a bibliography (Chicago, Chicago club of printing house craftsmen, 1942, 413 pages).
- Specimen of types at the Condé Nast Press (1923, Condé Nast Press, Greenwich, CT), a book athat showcases type from ATF and Monotype. At that time, the press liked Monotype's Caslon.
- Erhard Ratdolt, the father of typographic decoration (Chicago, Priv. print., 1936).
- Typography of magazines and house organs (Chicago, Priv. print., 1935).
- The Didot family, typefounders; the work in typographical design of a celebrated line of French typefounders, printers, and publishers (Chicago, Priv. print., 1935).
- The first printing on the island of Jamaica (Metuchen, N. J., 1934).
- Ludlow ornament. With an introduction on typographic ornament (Chicago, Ludlow Typograph Co., 1929).
- Balzac, printer&typefounder (New York, Priv. print., 1926).
- Fraktur type design : the attempt of J. F. Unger to make German types more readable (New York : Press of Ars typographica, 1926).
- American type design in the twentieth century, with specimens of the outstanding types produced during this period (Chicago, R. O. Ballou, 1924, introduction by F. Goudy).
- The First Swedish Type Specimen (Chicago, 1933).
- Pierre Cot Type Specimen of 1707 (1924, Robert O. Ballou, Chicago.
- The First Printers of Chicago. With a bibliography of the issues of the Chicago Press 1836-1850 (Chicago, The Cuneo Press Inc., 1927).
- Benjamin Franklin, Typefounder (1925, Douglas C. McMurtie, New York).
His typefaces include McMurtrie Title, Ultra-Modern&Italic (1928, an art deco typeface published at Ludlow), and Vanity Fair Capitals. Jim Spiece's UltraModernClassicSG is based on Ultra-Modern. And so is Steve Jackaman's Ultra Modern RR (Red Rooster). FontShop link. Klingspor link.
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