A Note on the Type: "Explorers of the New Century" by Magnus Mills

The text of this book is set in Linotype Janson. The original types for which were cut in about 1690 by Nicolas Kis, a Hungarian working in Amsterdam. The face was misnamed after Anton Janson, a Dutchman who worked at the Ehrhardt Foundry in Leipzig, where the original Kis types were kept in the early eighteenth century. Monotype Ehrhardt is based on Janson. The original matrices survived in Germany and were acquired in 1919 by the Stempel Foundry. Herman Zapf used these originals to redesign some of the weights and sizes for Stempel. This linotype version was designed to follow the original types under the direction of C H Griffiths.

Bloomsbury paperback 2006.