Author Description

Albert Frederick Stuart, Quentin Crisp, Lettering for Brush and Pen. London, Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd., 1936, first edition, 12mo (7.5" x 5"), hardcover, orange cloth boards w/ dark green decorative titles in a glassine dust jacket. 47 pp. Alphabets include Roman letter forms, Caslon Old Face, Gill Sanserif, Copper Plate, Black Letter, Versal Letters; Falstaff, Bodoni, Broadway, Block Lettering, Memphis, Luxor, Vogue, Locarno, Script. Notes on spacing. Traditional alphabets by Stuart; modern alphabets by Crisp. This is Crisp's first published work.