The Penrose annual : review of the graphic arts 1956, volume 50
1956, First Edition. London : Lund Humphries. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #420973
Physical description; 154 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles ; 29 cm. Notes; Continues: Penrose pictorial annual: the process year book. Continued by: Penrose annual: the international review of the graphic arts. Contents: Picture-printing and word printing / Stanley Morison - The graphic designs of William Nicholson / Lynton Lamb - Harold Curwen / Christian Barman - The book illustrations of E. McKnight Kauffer / Desmond Flower - Art is indivisible / Charles Rosner - American graphic design / Peter Selz - New light on typographic legibility / Beatrice Warde - Post Office printing / Misha Black - the picture on the pack / Alec Davis - Lettering and the advertising page / Frederick A. Horn - On the teaching of lettering / John Brinkley - Back to humanism in type design / G.W. Ovink - Fell music type / Harry Carter - Script into type / John Dreyfus - Minerva / Vivien Ridler - New types from Nebiolo / John Dreyfus - Chinese and Japanese printing in England / B. Schindler - Education and design at IPEX / Charles L. Pickering - Thoughts on colour photography for industry / Gilbert Cousland. Subjects; Graphic arts ; Periodicals. Photomechanical processes ; Periodicals. Printing. Graphics Illustration.
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