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EDWARD JOHNSTON: MASTER CALLIGRAPHER
Holliday, Peter
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First edition. Edward Johnston (1872-1944) was a man of letters - master calligrapher, typeface designer and creator of the lettering and branding for the London Underground. He was also a great teacher and philosopher. Many were, and still are, influenced by his down-to-earth ideas on calligraphy and lettering, and those who studied in his classes at the Central School of Art and the Royal College of Art in London took his ideas and views into their own classes and to their own students. Great calligraphers and letterers of today throughout the world are still influenced by Edward Johnston's work.
This detailed book by art and design historian Peter Holliday looks afresh at Johnston's work and legacy. It considers his friendships and his philosophy, the people he worked with and the influence he had on them and others. Importantly it gives details of the setting up of the craft community at Ditchling in Sussex and the craftspeople who were all drawn to the village as a result. During his career, Peter Holliday taught at Ravensbourne College of Design and worked at Ditchling Museum. He contributed to and edited the book Eric Gill in Ditchling published by Oak Knoll in 2002. Holliday passed away in November 2003 while creating this book, and the task of completing it passed to his sister, Susan Skinner. As a fellow calligrapher, she recognized the importance of this book on Johnston. With the information left to her by Holliday, Skinner contacted Sam Mullen to help her complete this book. Skinner and Mullen lightly edited Holliday's work using his impeccable research and have left the original Preface, written in 2002, untouched.
Co-published with The British Library. Sales Rights: Worldwide except in the UK; available in the UK from The British Library.
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CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS.
by Bertin, Charles.
Limited to 200 numbered copies signed by the the artist, the binder and the printer, this being one of twenty of the deluxe edition. The prize winning play translated into English by William Jay Smith. Preface by Norman Fiering. Designed, bound and signed by Deborah M. Evetts in quarter leather with Thai silk sides. Portfolio contains six wood engravings printed and signed by John De Pol, and prospectus. Text illustrated with the engravings by John Depol and six engravings from works in the John Carter Brown Library. This copy comes from the library of Deborah Evetts, the binder, and contains a pen and ink drawing of the design used on the front cover, a sample stamped in green leather of this design, and various photographs of the covers.
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