Beatrice Warde collection, 1919-1970 (bulk 1950-1970).

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Beatrice Warde collection, 1919-1970 (bulk 1950-1970).

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Three publications by Beatrice Warde, five calligraphic Christmas letters, and two broadsides issued in her honor by the Advertising Agencies Service Company and the Type Directors Club of New York on the occasion of her visits to New York City in 1950 and 1953. The 1950 tribute includes a signed copy of the wood-engraved portrait by Bernard Brussel-Smith. The collection also includes: one letter to her from Edward M. Gottschall on the subject of "Thought-unit composition" and a copy of a letter to her from Sir Cyril Burt on the same topic. There are also obituary notices, an undated portrait photograph, and a reprint of her "This is a printing office" in the form of a broadside, as well as a few miscellaneous items. Frederic Warde is represented by copies of his typewritten genealogy of the Warde family and his discharge paper from the Air Service Flying School, dated 1919.

1 box.photograph 1 16 x 20 cm.wood engraving 1 11 x 20 cm.

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Grolier Club. Library

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Beatrice (Becker) Warde was born in New York City. After graduating from Barnard College, she worked at the American Typefounders' Company Library in Jersey City for four years. In 1925 she went to England and began to write articles on printing history under the name "Paul Beaujon," and was then recruited by the Monotype Corporation. At Monotype Warde edited the Monotype recorder and eventually became director of publicity. She was married to book designer and typographer Frederic Warde, who di...

Type Directors Club of New York

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Brussel-Smith, Bernard, 1914-1989

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Bernard Brussel-Smith was born in New York City in 1914. He attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia from 1931 to 1936. In 1941, he studied wood engraving with Fritz Eichenberg at the New School for Social Research in New York. After working as an art director for a medical advertising agency he became a freelance wood engraver for advertising in 1946. In addition, he created illustrations for books and magazines including Holiday, Life, Saturday Evening Post, and Reader's ...

Gottschall, Edward M.

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Burt, Cyril Ludovic, Sir, 1883-1971

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Warde, Beatrice

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English writer on typography. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [New York], to F.B. Adams, Jr., 1969 Jan. 8. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270659511 Epithet: Mrs née Becker typographer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000496.0x0001e7 ...

Advertising Agencies Service Company.

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Monotype corporation

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Warde, Frederic, 1894-1939

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Book designer, typographer and printer. Frederic Warde (1894-1939) was best known in the field of graphic arts as a book designer and in association with the Arrighi typeface. He was also a writer, editor, and, on occasion, a perfumer. After service in World War I, Warde worked as an editor at Macmillan? though they would eventually divorce, his ex-wife would achieve her own fame in the world of graphic arts as Beatrice Warde. Warde became designer for the Princeton University Press...