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Item CPSPE SPCSK Z232.D975 WAD 40.05
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Dwiggins, W.A.
WAD to RR: A Letter About Designing Type
. Cambridge: Harvard College Library. 1940. Calligraphy, illustrations, binding,slipcase, and authored by Dwiggins. Cover and slipcase labels in ivory,printed in red and black, positioned in upper left-hand corner. One of the AIGA Fifty Books, 1942. Included are a prospectus, three page letter by WAD on lettering,and a review clipping. This brochure is a hand-written letter from Dwiggins to Rudulph Ruzicka, a distinguished American designer and book illustrator, on the subject of type design. Dwiggins wrote to Dorothy Abbe about this book: "Singular book - all about making type, and yet there isn't a bit of type used in making it". -- Agner No. 40.05, 1940
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