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Alphabet & Image, No.4 1947

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Editor: Robert Harling
Publisher: Shenval Press
Publication: 1947, First Edition
Binding: Softcover, comb-bound
Pages: 98
Size: 200 x 248
Text: English

British quarterly devoted to typography, graphic design, printing, and the visual arts. Combining essays on book design, lettering, illustration, and fine printing with outstanding production standards, it reflected Britain's post-war revival of typographic and artistic culture. After eight issues, the journal split into two specialist successors: Alphabet, devoted to typography, and Image, focused on the visual arts.

Contents:

  • Ellic Howe: NEWSPAPER PRINTING IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.
  • Simon Nowell-Smith: ARTIST INTO READER: a review James Thorpe: THE POSTERS OF THE BEGGARSTAFF BROTHERS
  • Graham Reynolds: DAUMIER: a review
  • Harold Keeble: THE TYPOGRAPHY OF PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE
  • Maurice de Sausmarez: THE PEN DRAWINGS OF THOMAS HENNELL

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