[3 book covers by Josef Capek] spacetype having been cast roughly between

having been cast roughly between 1870–and the 1920s

and typographer Victor Hammer has died

Jedediah Wheeler EX LIBRIS

Shapiro (whoever that was) got busy and turned up more material

This is that catalogue that brings together the works of and messages from 166 designers from 23 countries providing a wonderful opportunity to review and re-experience important creations

[3 book covers by Josef Capek] spacetype having been cast roughly betweenJosef Capek was a Czech painter, writer, and poet. He invented the word robot. No joke. An outspoken anti fascist, he died in the Bergen Belsen Concentration Camp in Lower Saxony. But before that, he designed hundreds of book covers. Here are three, the titles of which are (roughly) Little Fairy Tales for Little Readers, Aristophanes: Assemblywomen, and The Tower of Love. Weve got here a good representation of his work with hand drawn, slightly nave