A Pioneering Printer

Lund Humphries of Bradford

Ruth Artmonsky

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Artmonsky Arts
01 October 2022

Prints & printmaking; Other graphic art forms; Exhibition catalogues & specific collections; Typography & lettering

Lund Humphries, today, is known for publishing books on contemporary art and artists; few know that its roots are in a jobbing printers in Bradford. But Bradford, at the turn of the century, was no provincial backwater, but a city at the centre of the world's wool industry and Percy Lund Humphries was not merely a jobbing printer serving the local industry, but a progressive firm with ambitions well beyond the boundaries of Yorkshire.

In its time it was to publish The Penrose Annual, an essential read for those interested in printing and the graphic arts and Typographica, the most avant garde journal on typography; it mounted extraordinary exhibitions in its grand London office in Bedford Square it carried type for languages across the world, crucial for the governments need for language textbooks for those serving overseas in WWII; and much more.

A Pioneering Printer, Lund Humphries of Bradford tells its remarkable story.

114 colour illustrations

By: Ruth Artmonsky
Imprint: Artmonsky Arts
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 175mm, Width: 215mm,
Weight: 262g
ISBN: 9781916384552
ISBN 10: 1916384552
Pages: 84
Publication Date: 01 October 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

Foreword 7 Percy Lund and Edward Walter Humphries 9 The Bradford works 17 Eric Beresford Humphries and Eric Craven Gregory 25 The London base 33 Penrose Annual 39 The Bedford Square exhibitions 47 Herbert Spencer and Typographica 59 Art book publishing 67 A jobbing printer to the end 73 Appendices 82

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A Pioneering Printer

Lund Humphries of Bradford

Ruth Artmonsky

$22.99

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