I am an art librarian at
Cornell University with a range of interests, and a special focus on the history of photography, especially early photography,
typography, letter and book arts, and textiles. I have created and maintain
this guide to resources and strategies for research in art history for the
Cornell community.
Edna Beilenson, of the Peter Pauper Press. American typographer, fine press
printer, and publisher. 2017
Bertha M. Goudy, of the Village Press. American typographer and co-proprietor of the Village Press with her husband, the one who usually gets all the recognition, Frederic W. Goudy. 2017
Jane Bissell Grabhorn, of the Jumbo, Colt and
Grabhorn Presses in San Francisco. American typographer and printer. 2017
Claire Holt, Latvian-born American art historian and academic specializing in the arts (especially visual arts and dance) of Java, Bali, and Sumatra. 2016
Emma Jacobsson, Austrian-born Swedish botanist, art historian, knitwear designer, and entrepreneur. 2016
Union Pearl is the name of a typeface—the first display typeface produced in England, ca. 1708. More about that
here. Someday, I'll write an article about it myself, if someone else doesn't beat me to it. Well illustrated in this reprint of John Smith's Printer's Grammar, published in 1787 by T. Evans:
Brief Union Pearl Bibliography:
John A. Lane, “The Origins of Union Pearl” Matrix .[1]
I am an art librarian at
Cornell University with a range of interests, and a special focus on the history of photography, especially early photography,
typography, letter and book arts, and textiles. I have created and maintain
this guide to resources and strategies for research in art history for the
Cornell community.
Edna Beilenson, of the Peter Pauper Press. American typographer, fine press
printer, and publisher. 2017
Bertha M. Goudy, of the Village Press. American typographer and co-proprietor of the Village Press with her husband, the one who usually gets all the recognition, Frederic W. Goudy. 2017
Jane Bissell Grabhorn, of the Jumbo, Colt and
Grabhorn Presses in San Francisco. American typographer and printer. 2017
Claire Holt, Latvian-born American art historian and academic specializing in the arts (especially visual arts and dance) of Java, Bali, and Sumatra. 2016
Emma Jacobsson, Austrian-born Swedish botanist, art historian, knitwear designer, and entrepreneur. 2016
Union Pearl is the name of a typeface—the first display typeface produced in England, ca. 1708. More about that
here. Someday, I'll write an article about it myself, if someone else doesn't beat me to it. Well illustrated in this reprint of John Smith's Printer's Grammar, published in 1787 by T. Evans:
Brief Union Pearl Bibliography:
John A. Lane, “The Origins of Union Pearl” Matrix .[1]