Lord Hervey. Eighteenth-Century Courtier by Robert Halsband

Contributed by Florian Hardwig


Source: archive.org Internet Archive (edited). License: All Rights Reserved.

Here’s another example for Ursula Suess designing a book jacket with her own Book Jacket. One year after May Sarton’s As We Are Now for Norton, she used it for a biography of an English nobleman from the 18th century. The book was written by Robert Halsband (1914–1989), Professor of English at the University of Illinois. It was published by Oxford University Press. As on the other jacket, Suess worked with several of the typeface’s alternates, including swash caps and the descending form for the second h.

Source: www.abebooks.com Between the Covers (edited). License: All Rights Reserved.

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