Elizabeth Friedlander

Alternate Titles

• Elizabeth at eighty

Description

Published to celebrate the eightieth anniversary of Elizabeth Friedlander's typeface issued by the Bauer Type Foundry, this book uses some of the information from Pauline Paucker's majestic New Borders: The Working Life of Elizabeth Friedlander to sketch the story of her working life from beginning as a calligrapher in Berlin to her exile, first in Italy and then in England, and her work for leading lights in the world of books and graphic design, Ellic Howe, Francis Meynell, Penguin, among many others. This book serves as a taste of her many different talents, her elegant typeface, now digitally available from BauerTypes, her Monotype borders and Curwen patterned papers.

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