Arthur Eric Rowton Gill was born in Brighton in 1882 and apprenticed as an architect of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners in 1900. He married Ethel Mary Moore in 1904 and, three years later, joined a community of artist craftsmen in Ditchling, Sussex, where he did some printing and illustration. He left Ditchling in 1924 and lived at [...]

Two years ago The Monotype Corporation paid tribute to Dr. Giovanni Mardersteig on the occasion of his seventy-fifth birthday by issuing a limited edition of a publication devoted to his typographic work with ‛Monotype’ faces. In view of the great interest shown in this publication, we are here printing an adaptation of the introductory essay by John [...]

Swash may suggest to today’s younger designer the modern application of numerous curliques and exaggerated strokes to Bookman and numerous other faces—even to Helvetica—but the typographer with a background in metal types is more likely to think of Caslon and Garamond, with their traditional sets of graceful swash letters.
What we seldom realize is that there are [...]

Probably you never read anything on this subject before. Yet it is a matter of which every advertiser and printer should know.
The swash letter, now so popular in the finer kind of typography, is no new trick of the type founder. It has simply been taken from its hiding place in the occasional privately printed handmade [...]

The printer has many opportunities of learning how a type is cut and cast, and it is important that he should have this knowledge. How the stage of cutting is reached, the work that has gone before and all it involves — this can neither be learnt from technical books nor by the tour of a type [...]