print;
newspaper/periodical
- Museum number
- 1990,0519.15.7
- 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. 7, November 1937; containing chromolithograph advertising the Curwen Press by H. S. Williamson, collotype reproductions of watercolours and wash drawings by Samuel Palmer, Picasso, and Inigo Jones, photomechanical reproduction of a pen drawing by Henry Moore, stencilled reproduction on sandpaper of a drawing by Joan Miró, illustrations to Shakespeare, and examples of typography and printed ornament.
In oatmeal wrapper, with title printed in brown.
Chromolithograph
Photomechanical reproduction
Collotype
Stencil
- Production date
- 1937
- 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
- 1990,0519.15.7