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A Goudy memoir: essays by and about America's great type designer Frederic W. Goudy

Contents

A note by the printer / Neil Shaver -- Introduction / Alexander S. Lawson -- The designer / Howard W. Coggeshall -- Hand-press printing / Frederic W. Goudy -- The happiness of this world / Christopher Plantin -- Frederic W. Goudy / Richard Ellis -- A tribute to FWG / Arthur W. Rushmore -- Evening at Deepdene / Frederic W. Goudy -- Anatomy of a type / Alexander S. Lawson -- The type speaks / Frederic W. Goudy -- The poet laureate / Howard W. Coggeshall -- Le chapeau immortel / Earl H. Emmons.

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    Council Bluffs: Yellow Barn Press, 1987

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    "It has been a combination of hand composition and Monotype machine composition ... 75 copies of the book were printed on dampened Rives paper and 75 on Mohawk Letterpress. A Vandercook Universal III was used for the printing. Neil Shaver was the pressman" -- Colophon.

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