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The Bentons can be purchased directly from the publisher, Rochester Institute of Technology Press (RIT Press), as a print book or an e-book. It’s also available from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Better World Books. Book details Title:  The Bentons: How an American Father and Son Changed the Printing Industry Author:  Patricia A. Cost Publisher:RIT Press (01/2011) ISBN-10:978-1-933360-42-3 Binding:Softcover … Read more

Rick von Holdt gave a talk in Phoenix June 2013 that set people talking. It was published in several printing journals as “Morris Fuller Benton, Type Designer: Fact or Fiction?” This short excerpt gives von Holdt’s argument in a nutshell: It has long been my contention that he was a brilliant engineer and organizer and headed … Read more

On Thursday, October 22, 2015, twenty participants from the American Printing History Association’s annual conference took a bus to Skaneateles, New York, to tour the Bixler Press & Letterfoundry. Some people decided to attend this year’s APHA conference because it would give them this opportunity. The Bixlers have the most extensive collection of classic English Monotype book faces … Read more

Getting ready for my talk on November 12th at Type Americana in Seattle. I’ll be speaking about Linn Boyd Benton at this conference, and Juliet Shen will talk about Morris Fuller Benton. Yesterday I went in to the Cary Collection at RIT to look through my Benton files once more. I found an old xerox copy of … Read more

Hobo (1912) is one of the starred typefaces on the partial list of Morris Benton type designs, compiled by him in 1936, and sent as an internal memo to ATF’s sales promotion department. Benton explained that, “The ones with a * could be selected for a shorter list if the whole list is considered too … Read more