New York Observer (6/2/97)

[James F. Bisso]

According to "davemarc" <davemarc at panix.com>, Warren St. John, in the New York 
Observer (6/2/97), wrote: 
 
>Ms. Jaramillo had come up with a striking cover:  the 
>words "Mason" and "Dixon," wrapped around the novel in an authentic 
>18th-century typeface she'd scanned from a book of the period, the letters 
>magnified to reveal an eerie green halo caused by the hot-type printing 
>method of the original. 
 
Hot-type refers to Linotype typesetting, which wasn't around in the 18th 
century, and it has to do with the composition of the slugs, not the printing 
process. Maybe the green halo was an artifact of Ms Jaramillo's digitizing 
process. 
 
jim