Alphabets and Others.
[Notasulga, Alabama: The Armstrong Press. Fairhope, Alabama: The Slow Loris Press, 1988. One of 125 copies. Printed throughout, in black and in color, with specimens of nineteenth century American wood types and borders. With more than twenty typefaces represented. Text and descriptions printed in Caslon Oldface. Set, printed, and bound by Walter B. Clement and Ian. L Robertson, who provided the types from their presses. With an envelope containing eleven pieces of ephemera from the two presses. Some offsetting to preliminary blank from title-page. Otherwise, a fine copy of this charming type specimen book. Dark red cloth with printed paper label. 17 in. x 7 in. [35] ff., some half-sized. Item #17414
Ian L. Robertson begin printing in the early 1950s. At the beginning of his career, he was encouraged and mentored by Will Bradley and Arthur Rushmore. Robertson went on to operate the Windhover Press and work as a printer, editor, and designer at Colby College and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1973, he moved to Fairhope, Alabama, where he worked at a printing company and taught design at the University of South Alabama. Robertson partnered with Alabama-based printer Walter B. Clement to produce the present work under Clement’s Armstrong imprint and Robertson’s Slow Loris imprint.
APA Journal. Amalgamated Printers’ Association (January 2009).
Price: $400.00