Pre-Owned Essay on Typography (Hardcover) 0879237627 9780879237622

Born in 1882 Eric Gill was an artist letter carver polemicist and social reformer. In 1925 he had started drawing alphabets and printing books and in 1931 this plainspoken little book was a fustian and forceful argument for common sense in design composed for anyone remotely interested in the subtle and evolving challenge of the typographic arts. Set rag right with tight word spacing it is a model of composition. The text like most of Gill s is exasperating exorbitant and exciting. But Gill was above all a craftsman whose work always reflected his philosophy and whose hand always followed his moral convictions.