New York Observer (6/2/97)

[Tom Stanton]

At 01:58 PM 5/28/97 -0700, James F. Bisso wrote:
>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. 

Baskerville (the type designer) used to press printed pages between 
heated copper cylinders, which gave his books a very different finish
(a kind of calendaring). See http://www.wardpress.com/type/baskert.html

Tom