Signature Typography Journal, complete run, 1946-1954
140. (Signature/Journal) Signature: A Quadrimestrial of Typography and the Graphic Arts. Edited by Oliver Simon. London. [New Series] Numbers 1-18, July 1946 to 1954. All published. Printed at the Curwen Press. 9.75″ x 7.5″. With type specimens. Each volume covered with original printed Curwen Press patterned paper wrappers; housed in publisher’s case bindings. A complete run of the New Series in fine condition.
Illustrated in different media by contemporary artists, Signature achieved a “quality of design and production which few printers were capable of achieving.” As evidenced by its journal, the rise of the Curwen Press was one of the “great printing phenomena of this century.” [Grant Shipcott, Typographical Periodicals Between the Wars, Oxford Polytechnic, 1980, p. 37-55].
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