Writing & illuminating, & lettering: PB 3-2015

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Writing & illuminating, & lettering

Maker(s)

Author: Johnston, Edward
Publisher: John Hogg

Description

By Edward Johnston. With diagrams & illustrations by the author & Noel Rooke. 8 pp. examples in red and black and 24 pp. of collotypes.
6th ed. 510 pages ; frontispiece, illustrations, plates. 19 cm.

Artistic crafts series of technical handbook.
Advertising matter included in paging.

With bookplate: Ex libris Justin Howes 1963-2005

Place(s) associated

London

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (2015) by Lovett, Patricia

Dating

Production date: AD 1913

Note

"This edition of Darkfire has been designed and composed electronically by Susan Colberg. The prints by Sean Caulfield and corresponding poems by Jonathan Hart were created through a collaborative process. The images were developed on intaglio plates using mezzotint, etching and chine collé. The Spill and Cup include some hand tinting with acrylic ink and Black Wind has a layer of digital printing. The typeface used is Dante, designed by Giovanni Mardersteig, and the type was printed from polymer plates. The images are printed on Somerset, Gampi and Honen and the texts on Somerset. Sean Caulfield printed the images and texts with the technical assistance of Steven Dixon (letterpress), Marc Siegner (digital printing) and graduate students in the printmaking program at the University of Alberta." --colophon. Unbound sheets in a Japanese silk case. Limited ed. of 5 copies of which the Museum has no 4.