St Bride Printing Library Lecture
:: Harry Carter - Man of Type

Date and Time :

Tuesday 26 April
:: Reception : 7:00pm

Venue :

Bridewell Hall
St Bride Library
Bride Lane (off Fleet Street)
London EC4Y 8EQ

Lecture and Book Launch :

Harry Carter remains, in Francis Meynell's words, 'one of the least-known best-known men in the world of books'. Many people know his name, perhaps through his part in Stanley Morison's masterwork 'John Fell', or his History of Oxford University Press, or his discovery of the origin of the Janson types. But few can know that his expertise spanned every detail of type and books; from punch-cutting and typecasting to jobbing printing, from the design of government publications to the identification of ancient punches and matrices. Harry Carter had done them all; his scholarship came from first hand study of original sources and from practising the ancient crafts and their modern developments. This talk pays tribute to a modest man of exceptional talent and lasting importance.

Speaker :

Martyn Thomas is a collector of fine printing and co-author of The Fell Revival (with Martyn Ould, Old School Press, 2000). His latest book – Harry Carter, Typographer – is the first biography and bibliography of Harry Carter, written in collaboration with John A Lane and Anne Rogers.

Copies of this book will be on sale at the lecture at a discounted rate for Friends with a small donation per copy sold being made to the St Bride Printing Foundation.

Tickets :

Tickets, which are on sale in advance, can be obtained from St Bride Library (020 7353 4660) at:
£5 or £3 concessions, available on the door

More Info :

T : 020 7353 4660
W : http://www.stbride.org