Tebbel, John. A History of Book Publishing in the United States: Volume IV The Great Change, 1940–1980. New York: R. R. Bowker Company, 1981. pp.454-461. Biographical information was also derived from the collection.
While stationed in England during World War II, American book designer and calligrapher Sidney Feinberg began his interest in calligraphy. Several of the letters in this collection are responses from noted American or British calligraphers to Feinberg’s inquiries about their work and how he might develop his calligraphic skills. Feinberg’s interest in and practice of calligraphy became a life-long avocation.
Following the war, Feinberg lived in New York and worked as a book designer for American Book-Knickerbocker Press which later became American Book-Stratford Press. An example of his work is the cover design for Jack Dann’s anthology of Jewish fantasy and science fiction, Wandering Stars (1974).
George Grady founded the George Grady Press, a New York City firm which was noted for private and fine printing. Books which were printed by Grady are Geoffrey Hellman’s Motor-Car Touring Society of the City of New York, 1907–1919 (1941), the Grolier Club’s The Engraved and Typographic Work of Rudolf Ruzicka (1948), George Zabriskie’s The Story of a Priceless Art Treasure: the Original Water Colors of John James Audubon (1950), the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s French Painting from David to Toulouse-Lautrec... (1941), and Charles Joaquin Quirk’s Sculptured in Miniature (1956).
From the guide to the Letters from calligraphers to Sidney Feinberg and George Grady, 1938–1976, (University of Delaware Library - Special Collections)
