Showing posts with label Wood Type. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wood Type. Show all posts

Friday, March 15, 2013

Wood Type: Rob Roy Kelly



ROB ROY KELLY
March 15, 1925 – January 23, 2004

American Wood Type: 1828–1900
Dust jacket (front, back and flaps) and selected pages




RIT Libraries

The University of Texas at Austin

The New York Times
February 1, 2004

(Next post on Monday: E.G. Lutz)

Monday, June 18, 2012

Monday, June 11, 2012

Alphabets: Dan X. Solo


DANIEL “DAN” X. SOLO
April 29, 1928 – May 15, 2012

Links to articles and video










I have four of Dan X. Solo’s books, Art Nouveau Display Alphabets, Circus Alphabets, Condensed Alphabets, and Victorian Display Alphabets. When I wanted to photostat an alphabet, sometimes it was a chore to make the page level because the book, in some instances, did not lie flat. So, I used an X-acto knife to cut off the book’s spine, then used a three-hole punch on the pages, and put the pages into a binder. I used some of the wood type alphabets, from his books, on one of my Christmas cards.


(Next Monday: Wood type and the Morgan Press)


Monday, April 9, 2012

Wood Type: Ampersand


My collection of wood type ampersands.








(Next post on Monday: Arthur C. Clarke’s The Sentinel)