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The second annual Justin Howes memorial lecture

Event Venue :

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

Lecture Date and Time :

7:00 pm Tuesday 20 February 2007
Entry is free.

About the Lecture :

Richard Austin, arguably Britain's greatest type designer, has been lost in history. With help from Justin Howes, Alastair Johnston has established who the two Richard Austins were. The father, Richard Austin (1756–1832) was the brilliant punch-cutter behind Bell & Stephenson's British Letter Foundry. He also cut the revolutionary Porson greek for Cambridge University Press and the modern face types of the Wilson foundry of Glasgow and William Miller of Edinburgh (the so-classed Scotch roman), early in the nineteenth century. Richard T. Austin, his son (1781–1842), was a trade wood engraver (not a Bewick pupil) who worked for a range of metropolitan and provincial printers in England and Scotland. Alastair Johnston places their lives and works in the cultural context of their times.

About the Lecturer :

Alastair Johnston is a printer at Poltroon Press in Berkeley, California, which was established in 1975 and is considered a pioneer of the artists' book movement. He has written bibliographies of three San Franciscan literary small presses, translated Vervliet on Granjon and Tschichold on Sabon, and is the author of Alphabets to order: the literature of nineteenth-century typefounders' specimens.

About the Book, Handmade Type :

Incline Press have issued 'Handmade Type', a transcript of James Mosley's lecture of February 2006. The book is published by Incline on behalf of the Justin Howes Memorial Lecture Fund established by the Friends of St Bride Library.

It is priced at £10/$20 post paid of which £3/$5 will be donated to the Fund. To order a copy, please contact Incline Press.

You will also be able to buy a copy at the lecture on 20 February, or when you visit the Library.

From the Foreword:
This is the text, more or less as it was delivered, of the first Justin Howes memorial lecture, which was given at the St Bride Institute on 21 February 2006, just one year after Justin Howes died. It was intended mostly as a personal tribute to a friend, and as the reader may detect it was not written with publication in mind. There was in fact more of it than could be spoken in a reasonable time. Since the generous offer has been made to print it, I have responded by making only some slight pruning and correcting, and I have added details of some the publications to which I referred.

More Info :

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

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