Published by: James Shand Art and Technics Ltd. Soho London
Printed by The Shenval Press
100pp
Richly illustrated contents includes:
James Shand: Author and Printer: G. B. S. and R.& R. C. : 1898-1948
Thomas Balston: The River Books of Robert Gibbings
Percy Muir: A serendipitous bibliography: a review
Ambrose Heal: 17th century trade-cards
Douglas Newton: Paintings of plastics by Edward Wadsworth
Konrad Bauer: Heinrich Jost: an obituary
James Thorpe: Charles Keene: The last phase
Reviews
Interesting items of correspondence shown of George Bernard Shaw with his Edinburgh Printer R & R C Clark.
It appears G B Shaw was very knowledgeable about matters of pre-press. He was firm on the use of typeface (Caslon), and he also edited his manuscripts after he had received proofs, bearing the typesetters work in mind (making text fit, while editing his writings).
Shaw also made his own sketches for book illustrations, for those then to be produced as professional etchings by artists.
