DIMENSIONS
Volume 9, Number 4, Winter 1966 – 1967
William Stone [Art Director/Editor],
Robert Heimall [Designer]
William Stone [Art Director/Editor], Robert Heimall [Designer]: DIMENSIONS. Vicksburg, MI: Simpson Lee Paper Company, Volume 9, Number 4, Winter 1966 – 1967. Original edition. Slim quarto. Saddle-stitched printed thick wrappers. 24 pp. House organ illustrated with examples of type sheets issued by Michigan State University. Elaborate graphic design and production throughout. Uncoated wrappers lightly handled, but a nearly fine copy.
8.5 x 10 house organ subtitled “A Publication of the Simpson Lee Paper Company” with 24 pages of wooden type examples reproduced on various sheets of Simpson Talisman paper.
This issue of Simpson’s DIMENSIONS preceded noted design educator, collector, and historian Rob Roy Kelly’s (1925 - 2004) publication of the seminal “American Wood Type, 1828 - 1900: Notes on the Evolution of Decorated and Large Types and Comments on Related Trades of the Period” in 1969. This text was one of the first, and remains one of the most comprehensive, histories of American vernacular printing types of the period. During the 1970s, the publication of Kelly's American Wood Type helped fuel a revival of interest in nineteenth-century American printing types, and in doing so, helped save a valuable facet of American history.