print;
newspaper/periodical
- Museum number
- 1990,0519.15.12
- Title
- Series: Signature
- Description
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Oliver Simon (editor), "Signature: A Quadrimestrial of Typography and Graphic Arts", (London, the Curwen Press for Signature) No. 12, July 1939; containing chromolithograph of flowers by John Nash, collotype reproduction after a portrait of Stanley Morison by Frances Macdonald, reproductions of book illustrations by Joan Miró, Staney William Hayter, Picasso, Hans Bellmer, and Georges Braque (accompanying an essay by Herbert Read), samples of typography from the Pelican Press including fold-out "Kalendar for the Whole Year" printed in black and maroon, collotype reproductions of script and type by Ludovico Arrighi (1475-1527), and colllotype reproductions of decorative paper in the collection of Olga Hirsch.
In oatmeal wrapper, with title printed in cerise.
Photomechanical reproductions
Collotype
Chromolithograph, printed from four stones
- Production date
- 1939
- Dimensions
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Height: 250 millimetres (sheet size of each page)
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Width: 185 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- 33 issues of "Signature" are kept in 7 boxes at 188.b.1-7:
Box 1: Nos. 1-4 (1935-1936)
Box 2: Nos. 5-10 (1937-1938)
Box 3: Nos. 11-15 (1939-1940)
Box 4: New Series Nos. 1-4 (1946-1947)
Box 5: New Series Nos. 5-9 (1948-1949)
Box 6: New Series Nos. 10-14 (1950-1952)
Box 7: New Series Nos. 15-18 (1952-1954)
No. 1 (November 1935) includes the original prospectus, detailing prices:
Crown 4to. Paper wrappers. 3s per number (postage 4d.). 10s. per annum post free (three numbers per annum).
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Signature
- Acquisition date
- 1990
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1990,0519.15.12
