EXHIBITION OF PRINTING
HE LISTENER, in its book-reviews, has more than once remarked on the good printing characteristic of the Caxton Press, of Christchurch. The Caxton Press has-in a very short time made a name for itself for its very fresh and intelligent work in book production and " jobbing ""-so much so as to earn the commendation of a man like the late Eric Gill, the great engraver and typedesigner. Those in Wellington who are interested in such work-and printing is an art so close to our everyday lives that we should all be interested-can see an exhibition of it now in progress at Modern Books (12 Woodward Street, Wellington, C.1) and a very stimulating exhibition this is. It includes samples of all sorts of the Press’s work, books and announcements of books, typespecimens, ecclesiastical printing, leaflets and letter-heads, and so on. The total effect is very cheering in a dark world; for it shows what can be done by taste and discrimination and hard work backed by comparatively small resources in type, and while the Press can do brilliant and exciting things with Gill’s Perpetua, and extremely pleasant things with Caslon, it can do also quite agreeable things with so undistinguished (almost abominable) a type as Century; witness its candid and amusing catalogue. The exhibition will run till March 15,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 90, 14 March 1941, Page 15
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221EXHIBITION OF PRINTING New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 90, 14 March 1941, Page 15
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