PRINTING OF TO-DAY
AN ILLUSTRATED SURVEY OF POST-WAR TYPOGRAPHY IN EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES
Oliver Simon and Julius Rodenberg, Aldous Huxley (Introduction)
Oliver Simon and Julius Rodenberg, Aldous Huxley (Introduction): PRINTING OF TO-DAY: AN ILLUSTRATED SURVEY OF POST-WAR TYPOGRAPHY IN EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES. London and New York: Peter Davies Ltd., Harper and Brothers, 1928. First edition. Quarto. A very good hardcover bound in blue & white decorative cloth backed with white cloth titled in gilt on the spine. The covers are bumped with small tears to the corners & some light staining to the front cover. The spine & extremities are darkened. Printed at the Curwen Press Printing in England.
10 x 13 hardcover book with 20+ pages of tect followed by 122 plates (some with spot colors): "The specimens in this book have been selected not so much to represent every publisher, printer and illustrator of distinction in each country, but rather to endeavor (within a necessarily limited compass) to indicate the general trend of the design of the printed book in Europe and the United States to-day."
The name of the book, author, printer; publisher and artist given at the foot of each specimen.
Contents:
- Introduction by Aldous Huxley
- Printing in England, by Oliver Simon
- Printing in the United States, by Paul Beaujon [i.e. Beatrice Warde]
- Continental printing, by Julius Rodenberg
A spectacular large-format book about the state of typography and printing in Europe and the United States, published on the verge of the most momentous publication of Jan Tschichold¹s Die Neue Typographie, the book that brought the lessons and styles of Russian constructivism to the west. There¹s barely a hint in the book of the new world of typographic experimentation about to emerge‹just a few pages of Russian asymmetrical design. But what the book does have is ample evidence of the beauty of elegance of traditional design (of just the kind, in fact, that Tschichold later embraced). And it contains some of the great names of the era in design, typography, painting, and illustration, including Eric Gill, E. McKnight Kauffer, Paul Nash, Rockwell Kent, W. A. Dwiggins, and Bruce Rogers.
A gorgeous book, loaded with art (and art deco)‹122 beautifully printed pages of examples from all sorts of books, from gospels to cocktail books, by obscure authors and writers as famous as Robert Graves, Edgar Allan Poe, Osbert Sitwell, and Edith Wharton. The authors are Oliver Simon, famous for his work at the Curwen Press.
Includes typographic design work by E. McKnight Kauffer, Duncan Grant, Eric Gill, Robert Gibbings, Paul Nash, David Jones, Albert Rutherston, Bruce Rogers, Rockwell Kent, W. A. Dwiggins, Marcus Behmer, Rudolph Koch, George Mathey, Valdemar Andersen, Karol Svolinsky, Carlegle, Louis Bouquet, J. E. Labourer, Fernand Simeon, Ludwig Kozma, Wladimir Favorski, A. Kravtchenko and many others.
Includes Specimen pages from The Shakespeare Head Press, Cambridge University Press, T & A Constable, Golden Cockerel Press, Curwen Press, Oxford University Press, D.B. Updike at the Merrymount Press, Bruce Rogers, The Pynson Printers, Poeschel & Trepte, The Industrial Printing Establishment in Prague, Guido Modiano, and many more.
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