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This was the book, self-published by Paul Lippman in 1992, that turned me into a maniac when I got hold of it in 1994. As soon as I saw the New Model Crandall on the cover, I was fascinated and hooked.It took about a decade for me to get hold of a New Model Crandall myself. It's a rough specimen, not functional, but still wonderful.In 2005, I got a notion that I could try to turn the typeface on its type cylinder into a digital font. I pulled out the cylinder, inked it, and rolled it carefully over a piece...