RHM: Robert Hunter Middleton: The Man and His Letters: Eight Essays on His Life and Career

Chicago: The Caxton Club. New in New dust jacket. 1985. 1st Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. First edition, limited to 1000 copies. Case bound with a buckram spine and paper sides over boards, carrying paper labels on front and spine. It includes 112 letterpress pages and 16 offset pages printed on acid-free paper and Smyth-sewn. Title-page printed in black and red. The volume is illustrated throughout with type specimens, photographs, and facsimiles. Prospectus laid in. The essays are by James M. Wells, John Schappler, Greer Allen, Herbert Pinzke, Carolyn Reading Hammer, Gordon Williams, R. Russell Maylone, and Rhodes Patterson. This book was created by the Caxton Club in the tradition of Middleton's fine letterpress work. It is composed in Monotype Bembo, printed from metal type at Heritage Printers in Charlotte, NC. The chapter headings and display matter are set in Eusebius (Middlteon's design) and printed from the Ludlow castings. It is illustrated with examples of Middleton's types, and contains a special offset section showing examples of his books and portfolios, wood engravings, glass engraving and paste-papers. There are photos illustrating his method of punch cutting and matrix making, and views of his famous Cherryburn Press. Robert Hunter Middleton (1898-1985) was an American book designer, painter, and type designer. Born in Glasgow, Scotland he came to Chicago in 1908 where he studied at the School of the Art Institute. He joined the design department of the Ludlow Typograph Company in 1923 and served as director of the department of typeface design from 1933–71. In 1944 he began operating a private press, The Cherryburn Press. Middleton was founder of The Typographic Society, a member of the New Bauhaus, and a founder of the Twenty-Seven Designers. . Both the volume and the unclipped dust jacket are in perfect, pristine condition; unread, unmarked, tight, square, and clean. Still in original shipping box. NEW/NEW.. B&W Illustrations. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. x, (i), 100, (1) pp .