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Browning.Men & Women,2v,callig.EJohnston,Doves

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2 vol., one of 250 copies, printed in red and black, initials supplied by hand in blue and green by Edward Johnston and signed by him in red ink at end of each volume, original limp vellum by the together in modern cloth slip-case, 4to, 235 x 170mm., Doves Press, 1908.

***The importance of Edward Johnston to calligraphy cannot be overstated. In these volumes his flourishes soften the severity of Cobden-Sanderson's typography to make Men & Women one of the finest Doves Press publications. Johnston taught calligraphy, from 1899 to 1912, at the London County Council Central School of Arts and Crafts and, from 1901, at the Royal College of Arts. Eric Gill, Graily Hewitt and Anna Simons were his pupils, as was the Dutch typographer Jan van Krimpen..

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