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monotype, n. and a.|ˈmɒnəʊtaɪp|
[f. mono- + type; in sense 1 repr. mod.L. monotypus.]
A. n.
1. ‘The only or sole type; especially, a sole species which constitutes a genus, family, or the like’ (Ogilvie Suppl. 1882).
1881Bentham in Jrnl. Linn. Soc. XVIII. 345 Macodes, Blume, and Hyophila, Lindley, are both monotypes from the Malayan Archipelago.
2. In graphic art, a print taken from oil-colour or printer's ink painted on a sheet of glass or metal, the process being such that prints are produced singly. Also, the method of producing such a print. Also attrib.
1882Artist 1 Feb. 60/1 A very interesting collection of monotypes executed by Mr. Charles A. Walker of Boston. Though Mr. Walker did not invent the monotype still to him is due the credit of developing this process. 1902E. Bale in Encycl. Brit. XXXII. 18/1 The monotype is not a new, but a revival of a somewhat old, method of reproducing on paper a painting by an artist. 1926L. Binyon Engraved Designs of W. Blake ii. 13 Out of such experiments may have come the idea of the ‘monotype’ which Blake was to use to such good purpose. 1954Oxford Mag. 21 Jan., Anyone who does not know what Monotypes are can spend a profitable twenty minutes at his exhibition at Black Hall in deducing the nature of Mr. Baynes's technique. 1955P. Heron Changing Forms of Art xi. 174 No English artist living excels him in this medium, especially where it involves the process known as ‘monotype’. 1962Listener 18 Oct. 624/2 An exhibition of monotypes and off-set drawings completed by Robert Colquhoun just before he died. 1970Oxf. Compan. Art 736/1 G. B. Castiglione made monotypes on etching plates in the 17th c., William Blake's monotypes were apparently done on pieces of card.
3. (With capital initial.) The proprietary name of a composing machine consisting of two units, a keyboard which produces the perforated paper tape used to control the caster, which produces type in individual characters.
1893Official Directory World's Columbian Exposition (Chicago) 459/1 Lanston Monotype Machine Co., Washington, D.C. Monotype Machine. 1895Current Hist. (Buffalo) V. 961 The Lanston Monotype..invented by Tolbert Lanston, of Washington, D.C. marks an important advance in the development of typographical art..both a type-setting and a type-casting machine. 1897Daily News 15 Oct. 6/2 The monotype machine. 1906Daily Chron. 15 Sept. 6/5 The machinery..included a couple of Monotypes. 1931A. Esdaile Student's Man. Bibliogr. iii. 58 The monotype method..involves two machines. 1959[see Intertype]. 1965J. Moran Composition of Reading Matter vi. 65 The Monotype machine consists of two units—the keyboard and the caster. By operation of the keyboard a paper ribbon is perforated by means of compressed air. The ribbon is fed into a caster which carries a matrix-case. This moves to different positions in accordance with the perforated ribbon and molten metal is pumped into the appropriate matrix. Cast types are ejected singly and assembled in a channel until a line is completed. 1973S. Jennett Making of Books (ed. 5) iv. 79 The type produced by the Monotype is of excellent quality, and in use is indistinguishable from founders' type.
B. adj. = monotypic [cf. F. monotype adj.]. Cf. also monotype 2 and 3.
1885in Cassell's Encycl. Dict. And in later Dicts. |