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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Eric Gill, Modern Typography in Monotype Gill Sans-Serif Produced by Students Attending Classes at City of Birmingham School of Printing, 1932

Eric Gill

Modern Typography in Monotype Gill Sans-Serif Produced by Students Attending Classes at City of Birmingham School of Printing, 1932
Birmingham: Central School of Arts & Crafts
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Eric Gill, Modern Typography in Monotype Gill Sans-Serif Produced by Students Attending Classes at City of Birmingham School of Printing, 1932
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Quarto. 8ff. Handsome type specimen book featuring display work executed in Gill's enduring typeface, which was released by Monotype in 1928. This is the second pamphlet produced by Leonard Jay's...
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Quarto. 8ff. Handsome type specimen book featuring display work executed in Gill's enduring typeface, which was released by Monotype in 1928. This is the second pamphlet produced by Leonard Jay's printing students in Birmingham, the first appeared in 1929 as a supplement. The use of color and ornament here reflects a distinctly Curwen-like aesthetic, and fully justifies the Birmingham School's "international for painstaking and attractive work" under Jay's direction (Wallis, p. 20). Of particular note is the striking and effective display graphic for Orient Line Cruises, set in a mosaic of chevrons printed in blue and turquoise - the arrangement of which presents the illusion of undulating waves. A scarce work known in four institutional holdings. In the original kettle-stitched wrappers with the cover title - Eric Gill Sans-Serif Nulli Secundus se non e vero e ben trovato - printed in orange. (Wallis: Leonard Jay, p. 106).  
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