A Quarterly Of Typography And Graphic Arts. Edited By Robert Harling.
£40.00
Publisher
James Shand, 58 Frith Street Soho W1. Art and Technics Ltd. Printed by the Shenval Press.
Place
London
Date
1948
Synopsis
8. winter december 1948.
Item Description
8vo. 9.5 x 7.75 inches. 98 pp. + [2] pp., including advertisements. In pictorial card wrapper. Wrapper and page edges a little sunned, but otherwise a very good copy. Inset: A and I: Stop Press, 7 +[1] pp. Illustrated by 4 colour plates paginated in text and by text figures, some in red, and including wood engravings and facsimiles. The last issue of the periodical Alphabet and Image before it separated into Alphabet (typography) and Image (arts) in 1949 (see the inserted Stop Press). It was edited by Robert Harling (1910-2008), typographer, novelist and journalist, and friend of Ian Fleming, who recruited him to work in the Inter-Service Topographical Department in 1941. Harling had an adventurous wartime career and followed Royal Navy service at Dunkirk and with the Atlantic convoys, by visits abroad to collect enemy data, soon after D-Day. Printed and published by James Shand (d.1967), whose family owned the Shenval Press.
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