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Morgan Press Wood Type Specimen Book | Wood 2

October 28th, 2011 — Posted by David Watson

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Morgan Press Wood Type Specimen book | Wood 2

Sample spreads from Wood 2. by Morgan Press printers and typographers

Black ink printed on various colored paper stocks

Design: John Alcorn

Author: Morgan Press

Published: Hastings-on-Hudson, NY: Morgan Press, [1964?]

I fell in love with these wood type images awhile back and decided to track them down to share through ‘Typetoken’.

Thanks to Kindra Murphy for the original photos/info

- Kindra’s Blog | Flickr are well worth a visit

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