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Book designers -- History -- 20th century -- Sources

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Bruce Rogers Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-Rogers
Abstract

Correspondence, a few works, and miscellaneous items relating to Bruce Rogers, an American typographer and designer of books.

Dates: 1902-1951

Count Harry Kessler letters

 Collection
Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-Kess
Abstract Designer, publisher and patron of fine press printing. His first book was the Notizen über Mexico (1898). After founding the Cranach Press at Weimar in 1913, he commissioned type designs from Edward Johnston and a book version of Gordon Craig's staging of Hamlet with designs by Craig. Incoming correspondence, largely in English, with a small number of drafts or carbon copies of outgoing letters. Included are letters from Sidney Cockerell, Edward Gordon Craig, Eric Gill, Edward Johnston,...
Dates: 1898-1937