print;
newspaper/periodical
- Museum number
- 1990,0519.15.14
- 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. 14, May 1940; containing photomechanical reproductions after drawings and prints by Picasso with accompanying checklist of books illustrated by him, reproductions of illustrations by Edward Ardizzone including colour half-tone after an illustration of "Tim and Lucy go to Sea", chromolithograph "Public Bar at the George" by Ardizzone, and other printed designs.
In oatmeal wrapper, with title printed in blue.
Photomechanical reproductions
Chromolithograph
Half-tone
- Production date
- 1940
- 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
- 1990,0519.15.14