PRINTED EPHEMERA
THE CHANGING USE OF TYPE AND LETTERFORMS
IN ENGLISH AND AMERICAN PRINTING
John Lewis
John Lewis: PRINTED EPHEMERA: THE CHANGING USE OF TYPE AND LETTERFORMS IN ENGLISH AND AMERICAN PRINTING. Ipswich: W. S. Cowell Ltd., 1962. First edition. Folio. Printed dust jacket. Oatmeal cloth stamped in black and red. Gray endpapers. 287 pp. 710 illustrations in black and spot colors. Price clipped with light edgewear to top and bottom edges. Former owner signature to front free endpaper, otherwise interior unmarked and very clean. A fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket. Uncommon thus.
9.5 x 12 hardcover book with 287 pages and 710 illustrations, some two-color. Designed and produced by John Lewis, a collector and accomplished typographer. According to Architectural Review: A rich and remarkable pictorial anthology." Ditto!
Sections include Indulgences and Proclamations -- Licences and Certificates -- Official notices and election printing -- Rewards and Wanted notices -- Almanacks -- Booksellers' lists and broadsheets -- For Sale notices -- Travel notices -- Entertainment notices -- Sporting posters -- Programmes, Menus and Wine Lists -- Tickets: Travel -- Tickets: Functions and Exhibitions -- Invitations and Announcements : Funerals, births and weddings -- Invitations and Announcements: Dinners and functions -- Invitations and Announcements : Exhibitions -- Trade Cards -- Stationers' and Ex Libris labels -- Change of Address and Compliments slips -- Receipts, Order forms and Billheads -- Labels, Wrappers and Packs: Tobacco -- Tea, Coffee and Grocery -- Beers, Spirits and Wines -- Pharmaceutical and Perfumery - Hardware among others.
Includes work by Herbert Bayer, The Beggarstaffs, Brownjohn Chermayeff and Geismar, Will Burtin, William Caslon, George Cruikshank, Harold Curwen, Marion Dorn, Alan Fletcher, Benjamin Franklin, Milner Gray, Ashley Havinden, F. H. K. Henrion, William Hogarth, Ray Komai, Rudolf Koch, E. Mcknight Kauffer, Jack Lenor Larsen, Alvin Lustig, William Morris, John Nash, Paul Rand, Eric Ravilious, Willem Sandberg, Reynolds Stone, Herbert Spencer, Hans Schleger, Jan Tschichold, and many others.