Introduction - In his admirable foreword to Lettering of Today, Dr. Eberhard Holscher has dealt most authoritatively with the principles of hand lettering and its raison d'être. This volume, first published in 1937 and several times revised, has become a reference book for students, established calligraphers, designers and craftsmen all over the world, and we venture to believe has had an influence far beyond the hopes of those responsible for its creation.

Calligraphy Part 1 - Looking back through the ages it can be seen that calligraphy has played   an important part in the development of civilization, and that it has mani­fested itself in many ways and through many agents. It can first be seen on papyrus in Egypt in the hieratic writing of the Papyrus Prisse dated about 2500 B.C. It is next observed in Greece where it had been practised since the third century B.C., and later turns up in Rome in the shape of Roman Uncials.

Calligraphy Part 2 - MERVYN C;. OLIVER. Baptismal Roll for the Diocese of Chichester. Printed on pale-yellow linen, figure in stronger yellow, arms in blue, and lettering in black and red. Original: 38 x 25 inches

HENRY R. ball. Illuminated Address on vellum in burnished powdered qold and black with illuminated initial by Ida Hcnstock. Original: 15 x 10 inches

Lettering Part 1 - If you take three sheets of paper and a line of poetry, and type it out on the first sheet, write it on the second and print it in Baskerville type on the third, you will have some evidence on which to start thinking about the best form for the visual expression of words.

The typewritten line is legible, but negative or dead in feeling; the hand-written line may or may not be legible but will introduce the personality of the person who wrote it out, possibly to an unwelcome degree for other readers; the printed line is clearly legible and in addition has some feeling: but not to a degree likely to become annoying if it has to be read often.

Lettering Part 2 - Hans tisdall. Jacket for a booklet for the I Ictoria & AlbertMuseum, London. (Original in red and qrten on buff ground)

arne heine. Book-jacket for Bokfarlaget Natur och Knltur, Stockholm. (Original in Mack and grey)

HELMUT saldln. Book-jacket for De Ar-beiderspers, Amsterdam. (Original in two shades of grey)

BO BERNDAL. Book-jacket for Tidens Bokklubb, Stockholm. (Original in blue-gray and black)

B. L. WOLPE. Book-jacket for Faber & Faber Ltd., London. (Original in red and gray)

Architecture Part 1 - Lettering in association with Architecture covers a very wide field. Perhaps the title itself is somewhat of a misnomer and should read Lettering in Associa­tion with Building, for in many instances the lettering has little to do with architectural values and, indeed, may even be a disfigurement of the architect's design.

Architecture Part 2 - LAWRENCE W. CRIBB and DENIS TEGETMEIER. Inner TempleLibrary inscription. Incised lettering in Portland stone: cypher and crown in relief

GEORGE MANSELL.Inscription set out and carved in deep V-cut letters in Portland stone over the main entrance to Birkbeck College, I University of London.Adams, Holdeen & Pearson, ff.r.i.b.a.. Architects

Advertising Part 1 - This section of Modern Lettering and Calligraphy is bound to be, I feel, an I uneasy bedfellow. It is as if an uncouth, rough-voiced huckster, benighted at an inn, were permitted to share the same quarters as some elegant, lettered gentle­men travelling for pleasure, his sweat-stained garments disposed ill amongst their laces and furbelows, and his insistent, forceful talk of the market-place jarring against their well-bred discourse on the intellectual delights of the fashionable world.

Advertising Part 2 - FREDERICK A. HORN. CIGAR-BOX LABEL FOR BENSON & HEDGES (OVERSEAS) LTD. ADVERTISING AGENTS: T. BOOTH WADDICOR & PARTNERS LTD.

TOMMY THOMPSON. NAME BLOCK FOR CIGARETTE CARTON

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