print;
newspaper/periodical
- Museum number
- 1990,0519.15.17
- Title
- Series: Signature
- Description
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Oliver Simon (editor), "Signature", New Series, No. 2, November 1946; containing typeset epitaph in Latin for Paul Nash, collotype and half-tone reproductions of script by Pierantonio Sallando and Girolamo Pagliarolo, collotype reproductions of book illustrations by Marc Chagall accompanied by bibliography of the work of Chagall in portfolio or book form (published and in progress), an extract from the journal of Eugène Delacroix inset and typeset by the Monotype Corporation in "Emerson". With essays by James Wardrop, Michael Ayrton and Reynolds Stone.
In cream wrapper, with title printed in blue.
Photomechancial prints
Collotype
Half-tone
- Production date
- 1946
- Dimensions
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Height: 250 millimetres (sheet size of each page)
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Width: 185 millimetres
- 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
- 1990,0519.15.17