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WAD to RR: a letter about designing T Y P E
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20 Apr 2012 — 1:08pm
20 Apr 2012 — 1:08pm
“Curves do all kinds of queer things…”
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20 Apr 2012 — 2:44pm
Yes, a booklet about designing type, the entire text of which was completely handwritten. Quite a sense of humor, that Dwiggins. ;-)
20 Apr 2012 — 3:32pm
Digitized and available for viewing: http://archive.org/details/WADtoRR1940
20 Apr 2012 — 5:46pm
a booklet about designing type, the entire text of which was completely handwritten
One of a select genre, along with Jan van Krimpen's letter to Philip Hofer. Any others?
20 Apr 2012 — 7:06pm
{Sorry - honest mistake.}
20 Apr 2012 — 6:54pm
But Catich, I believe, wasn't writing about type design. There are quite a lot of books on calligraphy and other kinds of lettering that are reproduced from manuscript. But surely few on the subject of type, and those, if the two so far listed are typical, epistolary.
20 Apr 2012 — 7:06pm
{Sorry - honest mistake.}
21 Apr 2012 — 4:53am
John — Was the Van Krimpen–Hofer letter reproduced from the original? or re-composed, as was the WAD–RR book?
21 Apr 2012 — 9:17am
It's a facsimile of the original letter, along with a redundant typeset transcript, but the letter is really a formal manuscript, not a typical epistle.
21 Apr 2012 — 9:41am
John, this isn’t “a booklet about designing type, the entire text of which was completely handwritten,” but it is still in the same universe, I think:
Edward Johnston, Mark Argetsinger, David Pankow: Thinking in script http://carypress.rit.edu/publications/books/thinking-script.html
This is a letter from Edward Johnston to Paul Standard, reproduced by the RIT Cary Arts Press in facsimile—in book form, instead of letter sheets. It is a quite nice little thing.