GOUDY, Frederic W. - Notes on Legibility

Muscatine, IA, The Prairie Press, 1944. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff terra cotta wrappers. (5pp). Illustrations. Fine. Carroll Coleman printed this lovely production, with rear colophon noting limitation of 290 numbered copies (this #272). Subtitle explains it all: "Excerpts from earlier writings and comments on their interpretation; taken from letters to Earl English; published on the occasion of Mr. Goudy's lecture to newspaper men of the state, at the School of Journalism of the State University of Iowa, November 17, 1944." Single illustration reproduces Alexander Stern's fine 1938 half-length portrait of the renowned type designer (1865-1947). .

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