Here’s a basic collection printers interested in typography should own History, type design, typography and biography in recommended listing Individual opinions vary; printers may want to add other important works Some time ago this department listed the manuals which, since Moxon’s Mechanick Exercises, circa 1683, had influenced the compositor’s craft. There have been several inquiries [...]
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Bruce Rogers,
Daniel Berkeley Updike,
Frank Denman,
Frederic W. Goudy,
J.C. Grant,
James Hendrickson,
L.A. Legros,
Oliver Simon,
Paul A. Bennett,
R. Hunter Middleton,
Stanley Morison,
Talbot Baines Reed,
The Dolphin,
The Fleuron,
The Typophiles,
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W.T. Berry,
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Harold Curwen, proprietor of the distinguished English printing office, the Curwen Press, wrote under this date in 1920 to Oliver Simon, a recently demobilized young officer of the 53rd (Welsh) Divisional Cyclist Company: “I think I shall get this through all right but I’ll have to speak to the whole of the Combined Chapel before [...]