DOI Heft:
Nr. 352 (July 1922)
DOI Artikel:Reviews
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21396#0078
REVIEWS
" CHARTRES." ETCHING
BY ERNEST D. ROTH
(Print] Makers Exhibition,
Los Angeles.—Bryan Prize)
Mauritshuis at The Hague, he places in
the forefront of the thirty-seven or thirty-
eight which are all that at present are in-
dubitably assigned to Vermeer, though
he firmly believes there must be more
awaiting discovery — some possibly in
England, Excellent reproductions of
thirteen of this number accompany the
essay, a a a a 0 0
The Alphabet. Fifteen interpretative
designs drawn and arranged with ex-
planatory text and illustrations by
Frederick W. Goudy. (London : John
Lane, the Bodley Head, Ltd.) 2nd
edition. 30s. net.—In presenting these
designs the author has in view " the artist
and craftsman who has real need in his
work for letters that are legible and cor-
rectly drawn, and that possess character
and dignity as well as beauty." In each
of the 26 plates following his historical
review of lettering, fifteen different forms
of one letter of the alphabet are shown
on an ample scale—seven capitals and
eight minuscule or " lower-case "—and
in the final plate the ampersand and
58
figures are displayed. In the case of each
letter he gives chief prominence to a
capital for which his models have been
taken from the inscription on the Tragan
column in Rome, and among other forms
exhibited are a Gothic or black letter
capital, a Lombardic Gothic versal, the
beautiful Roman type-faces of Nicolas
Jenson, the transitional type of Sweynheym
and Pannartz, Caslon old-face, and the
Kennerley roman and italic types designed
by the author and used generally for the
present volume, which, set by the author's
wife at the Village Press, New York, is an
admirable example of typographic art at
its best. a a a 0 0
Messrs. Bailliere, Tindall & Cox have
just published a third edition of the Manual
of Artistic Anatomy for the use of Students
in Art, by Mr. J. C. L. Sparkes, a former
Principal of the Royal College of Art,
South Kensington. The work has been
revised by Mr. W. H. Gates, A.R.C.A.,
Lond., and contains additional text and
illustrations introduced by him. The
price is 10s. 6d. net. 0 0 0
" CHARTRES." ETCHING
BY ERNEST D. ROTH
(Print] Makers Exhibition,
Los Angeles.—Bryan Prize)
Mauritshuis at The Hague, he places in
the forefront of the thirty-seven or thirty-
eight which are all that at present are in-
dubitably assigned to Vermeer, though
he firmly believes there must be more
awaiting discovery — some possibly in
England, Excellent reproductions of
thirteen of this number accompany the
essay, a a a a 0 0
The Alphabet. Fifteen interpretative
designs drawn and arranged with ex-
planatory text and illustrations by
Frederick W. Goudy. (London : John
Lane, the Bodley Head, Ltd.) 2nd
edition. 30s. net.—In presenting these
designs the author has in view " the artist
and craftsman who has real need in his
work for letters that are legible and cor-
rectly drawn, and that possess character
and dignity as well as beauty." In each
of the 26 plates following his historical
review of lettering, fifteen different forms
of one letter of the alphabet are shown
on an ample scale—seven capitals and
eight minuscule or " lower-case "—and
in the final plate the ampersand and
58
figures are displayed. In the case of each
letter he gives chief prominence to a
capital for which his models have been
taken from the inscription on the Tragan
column in Rome, and among other forms
exhibited are a Gothic or black letter
capital, a Lombardic Gothic versal, the
beautiful Roman type-faces of Nicolas
Jenson, the transitional type of Sweynheym
and Pannartz, Caslon old-face, and the
Kennerley roman and italic types designed
by the author and used generally for the
present volume, which, set by the author's
wife at the Village Press, New York, is an
admirable example of typographic art at
its best. a a a 0 0
Messrs. Bailliere, Tindall & Cox have
just published a third edition of the Manual
of Artistic Anatomy for the use of Students
in Art, by Mr. J. C. L. Sparkes, a former
Principal of the Royal College of Art,
South Kensington. The work has been
revised by Mr. W. H. Gates, A.R.C.A.,
Lond., and contains additional text and
illustrations introduced by him. The
price is 10s. 6d. net. 0 0 0