Rotofoto

SMITH (H.O.) The Rotofoto Process. A description of George Westover's process of photographic composition and make-up. London School of Printing, 1949. 8vo. Pp. 16. Four full-page illusts. Two loose sheets laid in: 'Details of production' and an additional specimen of Rotofoto setting. Cover design by Osbert Lancaster. V.g. Scarce. 
   'From the standpoint of bibliographers...of enormous significance as the earliest photo-typeset publication to be produced in Europe on a keyboard-operated system'. L.W. Wallis, A concise chronology of typesetting developments 1886-1986, 1988, p.25. SOLD