Some letters by Goudy : a partial account of some of the drawn and written letters of the famed type-designer Frederic W. Goudy / by Charles E. Pont. ; with an introduction by F.W. Goudy. ca. 1965.

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Some letters by Goudy : a partial account of some of the drawn and written letters of the famed type-designer Frederic W. Goudy / by Charles E. Pont. ; with an introduction by F.W. Goudy. ca. 1965.

Typescript of Pont's biography of Goudy, with additions & corrections in the author's hand

1 item ([446 p.]) ; 28 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6929144

RIT Library, Wallace Library

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Goudy, Frederic W. (Frederic William), 1865-1947

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Frederic William Goudy was an American type designer. After a career in real estate, he began his career as a type designer at 40 and created over 120 type styles including University of California Oldstyle, exclusively for the University of California Press, and Goudy Old Style. Goudy founded the Village Press with Will H. Ransom and was the Art Director for the Lanston Monotype Machine Company from 1920 until his death in 1947. From the description of Frederic W. Goudy collection, ...

Pont, Charles E. (Charles Ernest), 1898-1971

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Charles Ernest Pont, a painter, printmaker, magazine/book illustrator, educator, author, and clergyman, was born in France in 1898, and raised in New York City. He lived in and around New York all his life, and died in Wilton, Connecticut, in 1971. Frederic W. Goudy, American printer, typographer, and type designer, was born in Bloomington, Illinois, in 1865. He was a partner in small presses in the 1890s and then, with his wife Bertha (1869-1935) the proprietor of the V...

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