Printer's Devil: The Life and Work of Frederic Warde
Printer's Devil: The Life and Work of Frederic Warde
$45.00
Loxley, Simon
Cl. Jaffrey, 2013
Book ID: 79686
The book and type designer Frederic Warde is remembered today chiefly for his collaboration with Stanley Morison that produced the singular typeface Arrighi, and for being, briefly, the husband of Beatrice, Monotype s charismatic publicity manager. His life was short (dying in 1939, at the age of only 45) but in the previous two decades he had pursued a peripatetic, rollercoaster career that saw him come into contact with most of the leading players in his field, in England, Europe, and America: Bruce Rogers, Mardersteig, Updike, Ruzicka, George Macy, William Kittredge and, of course, Morison, are just some of a stellar cast of characters whose lives intersected with his orbit.
160 pp., color and B&W illus.