WARDE WRITES ON ERIC GILL WARDE (Beatrice, 1900-1969, née Becker, American Writer and Educator on Typography)

Beautifully penned Autograph Letter Signed to  Mr Charles BRAMLEY,  of Humberstone near Leicester, sending "the Gill Recorder [not present] with the article which it took me all summer to write and some illustrations which I know will please you ... The edition is nearly o.p.", she hopes "the exhibition will travel, and in due course be seen in Leicester", she is doing "another article on EG for the Penrose Annual ...", 1 side 8" x 5", [Monotype House], 43 Fetter Lane, E.C.4., 17th November a few extremely light creases

Beatrice Warde was passionate about clarity in typography - see her essay 'The Crystal Goblet'. She worked for the Monotype Corporation which used the designs of many fine typographers including Gill, with whom she had an intense relationship. From 1929 she edited the Monotype Recorder. The corporation's exhibition, 'The Work of Eric Gill, Master of Lettering', had opened on 14th October 1958.

Item Date:  1958

Stock No:  54271